Персона: Вовченко, Евгений Дмитриевич
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TIME-OF-FLIGHT ANALYSIS OF IONS FROM LASER-INDUCED PLASMA
One of the most detrimental phenomena in fusion research is the interaction of plasma with a surface of a first wall and in-chamber elements. It causes erosion of the plasma-facing components (PFC), which in turn results in a degradation of plasma parameters due to transport of erosion products into the hot plasma. On the other hand, these processes cause re-deposition of the eroded material together with fuel components (deuterium and tritium). This is the dominant mechanism for fuel retention in PFC.
APPLICATION OF LIBS, LA-QMS, LA-TOF-MS FOR FUSION RELEVANT MATERIALS ANALYSIS
One of the critical issues on the way to controlled nuclear fusion is related to plasma wall interaction. Such interaction leads to co-deposition of hydrogen isotopes together with eroded first wall materials. It is known that the deuterium-tritium (DT) mixture will be used in ITER and future fusion devices as a fuel. So as the accumulation of radioactive tritium in the machines is limited by the nuclear license, there is a need for some remote fuel retention monitoring system. In current devices, the total fuel amount is determined from the gas balance (difference between input and output flows) measurements and from a post mortem analysis of plasmafacing components. One of the most promising techniques which can be applied in situ in tokamaks is based on laser irradiation of the surface of interest followed by mass- or optical spectroscopy. Such a technique was already applied in TEXTOR tokamak to the hydrogenic carbon layers [1], and it is included in the task list of ITER with a high priority.