Achievement of 500 keV negative ion beam acceleration on JT-60U negative-ion-based neutral beam injector

Kojima, Atsushi; Hanada, Masaya; Tanaka, Yutaka*; Kawai, Mikito*; Akino, Noboru; Kazawa, Minoru; Komata, Masao; Mogaki, Kazuhiko; Usui, Katsutomi; Sasaki, Shunichi; et al.

Nuclear Fusion, 51(8), p.083049_1 - 083049_8, 2011/08

https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/51/8/083049

Hydrogen negative ion beams of 490 keV, 3 A and 510 keV, 1 A have been successfully produced in the JT-60 negative ion source with three acceleration stages. These successful productions of the high-energy beams at high current have been achieved by overcoming the most critical issue, i.e., a poor voltage holding of the large negative ion sources with the grids of 2 m for JT-60SA and ITER. To improve voltage holding capability, the breakdown voltages for the large grids was examined for the first time. It was found that a vacuum insulation distance for the large grids was 6-7 times longer than that for the small-area grid (0.02 m). From this result, the gap lengths between the grids were tuned in the JT-60 negative ion source. The modification of the ion source also realized a significant stabilization of voltage holding and a short conditioning time. These results suggest a practical use of the large negative ion sources in JT-60SA and ITER.

Characteristics of voltage holding capability in multi-stage large electrostatic accelerator for fusion application

Kobayashi, Kaoru; Hanada, Masaya; Akino, Noboru; Sasaki, Shunichi; Ikeda, Yoshitaka; Takahashi, Masahiro*; Yamano, Yasushi*; Kobayashi, Shinichi*; Grisham, L. R.*

IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, 16(3), p.871 - 875, 2009/06

https://doi.org/10.1109/TDEI.2009.5128528

Voltage holding capability of a 500kV, 22A three-stage electrostatic accelerator, where large-area grids of 0.28 m and large FRP insulators of 1.8 m in diameter are used, was examined. High voltage was independently applied to each acceleration stage, where the voltage holding capabilities of 130 kV were obtained. To identify whether the breakdowns occur in the gaps between the grids or the FRP insulators, high voltages were applied to the accelerator with and without the grids. Breakdown voltages without grids, i.e., the FRP insulator itself reached 170 kV of design value for each stage. These results show that the breakdown voltage of the accelerator was mainly determined by the gaps between the large-area grids. In this paper, the influence of non-uniform electric field and multi-stage grids on the voltage holding capabilities was also discussed.

Recent R&D activities of negative-ion-based ion source for JT-60SA

Ikeda, Yoshitaka; Hanada, Masaya; Kamada, Masaki; Kobayashi, Kaoru; Umeda, Naotaka; Akino, Noboru; Ebisawa, Noboru; Inoue, Takashi; Honda, Atsushi; Kawai, Mikito; et al.

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 36(4), p.1519 - 1529, 2008/08

https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2008.927382

The JT-60SA N-NBI system is required to inject 10 MW for 100 s at 500 keV. Three key issues should be solved for the JT-60SA N-NBI ion source. One is to improve the voltage holding capability. Recent R&D tests suggested that the accelerator with a large area of grids may need a high margin in the design of electric field and a long time for conditioning. The second issue is to reduce the grid power loading. It was found that some beamlets were strongly deflected due to beamlet-beamlet interaction and strike on the grounded grid. The grids are to be designed by taking account of beamlet-beamlet interaction in three-dimensional simulation. Third is to maintain the D- production for 100 s. A simple cooling structure is proposed for the active cooled plasma grid, where a key is the temperature gradient on the plasma grid for uniform D- production. The modified N-NBI ion source will start on JT-60SA in 2015.

A Study for improvement of the credibility of evaluation method for the long-term dynamical behavior of near-field rock mass, 2; A Study for the influence of inner pressures caused by buffer material and overpack

Hiramoto, Masayuki; Kobayashi, Yasushi; Aoyagi, Shigeo*; Miyanomae, Shunichi*

JAEA-Research 2008-013, 62 Pages, 2008/03

JAEA-Research-2008-013.pdf:9.17MB

For improvement of the credibility of evaluation method for the long-term dynamical behavior of near-field rock mass, the influence that swelling pressure caused by buffer material and expansion pressure caused by the erosion of overpack gave long-term stability of near-field rock mass was studied in this report. As a result, because swelling pressure caused by buffer material and expansion pressure caused by the erosion of overpack acted on near-field rock mass as inner pressure, long-term stability of near-field rock mass improved. And it was shown that conventional evaluation method gave results of safe side. But as an exception, when stiffness property of buffer material is large and initial stress of rock mass is small, a possibility that tensile fracture occurred in near field rock mass was shown. In such a case, a possibility that functional decline of artificial barrier happens is concerned, because buffer material flows out into the crack that occurred in rock mass.

Replacement of pressure surge tank and vent valves in JMTR

Ishii, Toshimitsu; Ooka, Norikazu; Saito, Junichi; Kobayashi, Shunichi; Takahashi, Kunihiro; Tsukada, Takashi; Iwai, Takashi; Kurosawa, Yoshiaki; Hoshiya, Taiji; Tsuji, Hirokazu

Proceedings of International Symposium on Case Histories on Integrity and Failures in Industry (CHIFI), p.227 - 236, 1999/00

no abstracts in English

Breakdown experiment for accelerator of ion source in JT-60U N-NBI

Sasaki, Shunichi; Kobayashi, Kaoru; Hanada, Masaya; Ikeda, Yoshitaka; Akino, Noboru

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English