The Development of the boroncoating device for the JFT-2M

Yamamoto, Masahiro*; Okano, Fuminori; Tsuzuki, Kazuhiro; Ogawa, Hiroaki; Suzuki, Sadaaki; Shibata, Takatoshi

Ferritic steel plates were installed in the JFT-2M vacuum vessel to conduct "the Advanced Material Tokamak Experiments (AMTEX)". A coating device with tri-methyl-bron(TMB)was developed to coat the ferritic steel surface with boron, since the ferritic steel is easy to rust and also has a property to absorb much impurity in the surface. The TMB gas used in the device was diluted with helium gas to 1% for ensuring workers themselves against the toxicity of the TMB. The uniformity and stability of the coated layer have been confirmed through sample tests with a microscope, whose samples had been set in the tokamak vacuum vessel. The coating thickness measured with X-ray photoelectron emission spectroscopy was roughly 130nm. In the plasma experiments after the boron coating, radiation loss in the plasma decreased to 1/3, and oxygen impurity also decreased to 1/10 compared to without the boron coating.