Plasma-material interactions in a controlled fusion reactor / Tetsuo Tanabe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tanabe, Tetsuo, author.

Series:

Springer series in plasma science and technology. 2511-2007

Springer series in plasma science and technology, 2511-2007

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plasma confinement.

Tokamaks.

Nuclear fusion.

Materials science.

Force and energy.

Plasma (Ionized gases).

Physics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 207 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book is a primer on the interplay between plasma and materials in a fusion reactor, so-called plasma-materials interactions (PMIs), highlighting materials and their influence on plasma through PMI. It aims to demonstrate that a plasma-facing surface (PFS) responds actively to fusion plasma and that the clarifying nature of PFS is indispensable to understanding the influence of PFS on plasma. It describes the modern insight into PMI, namely, relevant feedback to plasma performance from plasma-facing material (PFM) on changes in a material surface by plasma power load by radiation and particles, contrary to a conventional view that unilateral influence from plasma on PFM is dominant in PMI. There are many books and reviews on PMI in the context of plasma physics, that is, how plasma or plasma confinement works in PMI. By contrast, this book features a materials aspect in PMI focusing on changes caused by heat and particle load from plasma: how PFMs are changed by plasma exposure and then, accordingly, how the changed PFM interacts with plasma.

Contents:

Introduction

Discharges in Current Tokamaks

Power Load on Plasma Facing Materials

Responses of Plasma Facing Surfaces to Heat and Particle Loads

Erosion and Deposition & their Influence on Plasma Behavior (Material Transport in Tokamak)

Material Modification by High Power Load and its Influence on Plasma

Fundamentals of Hydrogen Recycling and Retention

PMI in Large Tokamaks

Estimation of T Retention in a Reactor

Selection of PFM Materials

Closing Remarks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 5, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9789811603280

9811603286

OCLC:

1244119354

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.