Development of in-vessel components of the microfission chamber for ITER

Ishikawa, Masao; Kondoh, Takashi; Okawa, Kiyofumi*; Fujita, Kyoichi*; Yamauchi, Michinori*; Hayakawa, Atsuro*; Nishitani, Takeo; Kusama, Yoshinori

Review of Scientific Instruments, 81(10), p.10D308_1 - 10D308_3, 2010/10

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3485080

Microfission chambers (MFCs) will provide total neutron source strength in ITER. The MFC is a pencil-sized gas counter containing the fissile material, U. The MFCs will be installed behind blanket modules in the vacuum vessel (VV). Double coaxial mineral insulated (MI) cables will carry signals from the MFCs to the upper port. Though the MI cables will be installed at a factory of the vacuum vessel or ITER assembly hall, detectors with U will be installed to the vacuum vessel at the tokamak pit. Then, the MI cable should be connected in the vacuum vessel. In this work, the connection of the MI cable with the MFC was conceptually designed. The MI cable should be also installed with small curvature radius (R) of 100 200 mm to avoid the VV structure and other diagnostics. So, the vending test of the MI cable was conducted. As a result, damages leak, electrical disconnection and the change in insulation resistance have not been observed at R = 100 mm.

Fast neutron- discrimination on neutron emission profile measurement on JT-60U

Ishii, Keiichi*; Shinohara, Koji; Ishikawa, Masao; Baba, Mamoru*; Isobe, Mitsutaka*; Okamoto, Atsushi*; Kitajima, Sumio*; Sasao, Mamiko*

Review of Scientific Instruments, 81(10), p.10D334_1 - 10D334_3, 2010/10

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3496986

Design of collection optics and polychromators for a JT-60SA Thomson scattering system

Tojo, Hiroshi; Hatae, Takaki; Sakuma, Takeshi; Hamano, Takashi; Itami, Kiyoshi; Aida, Yoshiaki*; Suito, Satoshi*; Fujie, Daijiro*

Review of Scientific Instruments, 81(10), p.10D539_1 - 10D539_3, 2010/10

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3494259

Designs of collection optics for JT-60SA Thomson scattering system are presented. By using tangential (to the toroidal direction) YAG laser injection, three collection optics without strong chromatic aberrations generated by the wide viewing angle and small design volume measure almost all the radial space. For the edge plasma measurements, we optimized the channel number and wavelength ranges of band-pass filters in polychromator to reduce relative error in the electron temperature by considering the all spatial channels and double-pass laser system with different geometric parameters.