Surface discharge related properties of fiberglass reinforced plastic insulator for use in neutral beam injector of JT-60U

Yamano, Yasushi*; Takahashi, Masahiro*; Kobayashi, Shinichi*; Hanada, Masaya; Ikeda, Yoshitaka

The JT-60U negative-ion-based NBI was designed to have 3-stage electrostatic accelerators with total accelerating voltage of 500kV. In order to hold such high voltage, three Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic (FRP) insulators of 1.8 m inner diameter and 31.5 cm height are used. Currently the hold-off voltage capability of 3-stage FRP insulators has been typically limited to 460 kV without beam acceleration. One of the possible reason is a surface discharges on the FRP insulators. This paper describes measurement results of surface resistivity and volume resistivity under vacuum and atmospheric conditions, secondary electron emission (SEE) characteristics and cathodoluminescence under some keV electron beam irradiation, gas analysis desorbed from the FRP insulator under irradiation of some keV-electron beam were also analyzed.