Divertor Development for a Future Fusion Power Plant

• Main Author: Norajitra, Prachai (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: KIT Scientific Publishing 2011
• Series: Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Angewandte Materialien, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; machining and joining tungsten; Fusion power plant; high heat flux tests; helium impingement cooling; helium-cooled divertor
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Nuclear fusion is considered as a future source of sustainable energy supply. Since the H-mode discovery in ASDEX experiment ""Divertor I"" in 1982, the divertor has been an integral part of all modern tokamaks and stellarators. The major goal of this thesis is to develop a feasi...