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Wakai, Eiichi; Kondo, Hiroo; Kanemura, Takuji; Hirakawa, Yasushi; Furukawa, Tomohiro; Hoashi, Eiji*; Fukada, Satoshi*; Suzuki, Akihiro*; Yagi, Juro*; Tsuji, Yoshiyuki*; et al.
Proceedings of Plasma Conference 2014 (PLASMA 2014) (CD-ROM), 2 Pages, 2014/11
In the IFMIF/EVEDA (International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility/ Engineering Validation and Engineering Design Activity), the validation tests of the EVEDA lithium test loop with the world's highest flow rate of 3000 L/min was succeeded in generating a 100 mm-wide and 25 mm-thick free-surface lithium flow steadily under the IFMIF operation condition of a high-speed of 15 m/s at 250
C in a vacuum of 10 
Pa. Some excellent results of the recent engineering validations including lithium purification, lithium safety, and remote handling technique were obtained, and the engineering design of lithium facility was also evaluated. These results will advance greatly the development of an accelerator-based neutron source to simulate the fusion reactor materials irradiation environment as an important key technology for the development of fusion reactor materials.
Takeuchi, Masaki; Sugie, Tatsuo; Takeyama, Shigeharu; Itami, Kiyoshi
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Ogawa, Hiroaki; Kitazawa, Sin-iti; Sugie, Tatsuo; Katsunuma, Atsushi*; Kitazawa, Daisuke*; Omori, Keisuke*; Itami, Kiyoshi
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Saito, Makiko; Maruyama, Takahito; Ueno, Kenichi; Takeda, Nobukazu; Kakudate, Satoshi
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In ITER, after plasma operation, The Blanket Remote Handling System (BRHS) will be installed in the vacuum vessel and it will remove and install the shield blanket module. BRHS will undergo hands-on maintenance in the maintenance area after the exchange of the shield blanket module. Since BRHS will be contaminated the radioactive dust in the vacuum vessel, the workers will be exposed by radioactive dust. In this study, potential contaminated areas and their respective dose rates from the BRHS using MCNP5 code to assess the exposure of maintenance workers. The assessment was performed using 3 types of equipment, vehicle manipulator, combination of cable handling and rail support, and sliding beam, which are installed in vacuum vessel or port. The dose calculations used the nuclides Ta-182 and W-181 and the dose was calculated from each of the 20 points spaced evenly around the equipment. As a result, there are some local points with high dose rates, which are exceed the target of acceptable dose limit for hands-on work in ITER (5 
Sv/h) in vehicle manipulator and combination of cable handling and rail support. To decrease the dose rate, lead blocks were used for shielding and as a result, the dose rate decreased to around 2.5 Sv/h using 5 mm and 10 mm lead shielding.
Imazawa, Ryota; Ono, Takehiro; Kawano, Yasunori; Itami, Kiyoshi
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Toma, Mitsunori; Hamamatsu, Kiyotaka; Hayashi, Nobuhiko; Honda, Mitsuru; Ide, Shunsuke
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Miyato, Naoaki; Yagi, Masatoshi; Scott, B. D.*
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Since the standard gyrokinetic model is constructed by the two-step phase space transformation, fluid moments can be represented in terms of a gyro-center distribution function and gyro-center coordinates in two ways. The representations of fluid moments are called push-forward representations. In the representation used in the standard gyrokinetic formulation, the gyro-center transformation part emerges as the pull-back transformation of the gyro-center distribution function and is separated from the guiding-center transformation part. In the alternative representation, the gyro-center part moves to the parts except the gyro-center distribution function and is combined with the guiding-center part. We compare the two representation by deriving explicit representations of particle flux.
Matsunaga, Go; Suzuki, Yasuhiro*; Shinohara, Koji; Ide, Shunsuke; Urano, Hajime
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Idomura, Yasuhiro
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Differences of confinement properties between hydrogen and deuterium plasmas are studied in numerical experiments of ion temperature gradient driven (ITG) turbulence using a full-f gyrokinetic code. Through systematic heating power and plasma size scans, it is found that a Bohm like scaling of the confinement time 
is given by stiff ion temperatur profiles, which are produced by intermittent bursts of avalanche like non-local transprt. Here, 
is the mass of ions and 
is the normalized Larmor radius. From this result, it is shown that the confinement time of the ion temperature gradient turbulence is proportional to the mass of ions.
Shibata, Yoshihide; Matsunaga, Go; Sakakibara, Satoru*; Kawano, Yasunori; Isayama, Akihiko; Watanabe, Kiyomasa
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Takahashi, Koji; Abe, Ganji; Isozaki, Masami; Ikeda, Ryosuke; Oda, Yasuhisa; Kajiwara, Ken; Sakamoto, Keishi; Kobayashi, Noriyuki*; Iida, Hiromasa*; Komatsuzaki, Manabu*; et al.
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It was analytically obtained that electron cyclotron current drive efficency at 
=0.4
0.6 can be doubled modifying the steering function of millimeter wave launching from the equatorial port from toroidally to poloidally. The design modification of the ITER equatorial launcher enhancing ECCD function is implemented. The millimeter wave design satisfying transmission efficiency more than 99% with the required ploidal beam steering capability is successfully obtained and reflected to the launcher structural design. The millimeter wave design optimization, BSM design modification to allow the required polidal beam steering capability and so on are reported in detail at the conference.
Miki, Kazuhiro; Idomura, Yasuhiro
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Understanding of the energetic particles physics is of great interest in the future burning plasmas. We identify linear dynamics of energetic-particle-induced geodesic acoustic mode (EGAM). Representating bump-on-tail distributions as the energetic particles, we calculate real frequencies and linear growth rates, based on eigenmode analyses. Taking into account of finite-orbit-width (FOW) effects, we estimate the reduction of growth rates of the EGAM due to machine size. Results indicate that the reduction is small, within several percent, for experimentally relevant parameters. Next, applying more general distributions, i.e. slowing down, we examine linear evolution of the EGAM. Here the same q-profile is applied as the DIII-D experiments. Results on the gyrokinetic simulations are compared with the hybrid code ones. Obtained frequencies are similar to those obtained from the hybrid one. Linear growth rates are smaller than those obtained from the hybrid one.
Takechi, Manabu; Matsunaga, Go; Suzuki, Yasuhiro*; Nakamura, Yuji*; Bolzonella, T.*; Ide, Shunsuke; JT-60SA Team
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Tojo, Hiroshi; Hatae, Takaki; Sakuma, Takeshi; Hamano, Takashi; Itami, Kiyoshi; Suito, Satoshi*; Araki, Takashi*; Iwamoto, Kohei*; Takeda, Yuya*
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Yatsuka, Eiichi; Hatae, Takaki; Takeyama, Shigeharu; Bassan, M.*; Vayakis, G.*; Walsh, M.*; Itami, Kiyoshi
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In ITER, 10
pulses of 5-J laser will be injected during its operation for 20 years. It was concerned that the surface damage was induced due to high incident laser energy density if conventional beam dump would be used. JAEA has proposed and modified the detailed shape of a new type beam dump in which the laser energy is reflected numerous times and absorbed gradually due to low absorptance of the S-polarized light. The new type beam dump withstands 10 pulses injection while conventional beam dump withstands 10
pulses (100 seconds) injection. In order to verify this design for drastically extending the beam dump life time, laser resistance test for molybdenum that is the beam dump material was carried out. As expected in design, beam energy absorption density is dominant factor for laser induced damage. Moreover, it was confirmed that interlaminating the bent sheets and shims and their diffuse bonding enable to manufacture complicated shape of the beam dump as designed.
Shimada, Takahiko; Ishikawa, Masao; Yatsuka, Eiichi; Hatae, Takaki; Itami, Kiyoshi
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Neutronic analysis has been carried out for the detailed design of Edge Thomson Scattering System (ETS) which is procured by JAEA in the ITER project. ETS measures the profile of electron temperature and density in the edge region of the plasma and consists of the laser injection system and the optical collection system installed in the EQ port plug. The optical collection system consists of many mirrors. High nuclear heating of mirrors could distorts them and deteriorates measurement accuracy. In order to reduce nuclear heating of optical mirrors, the effect of materials on nuclear heating of the optical mirrors has been evaluated. As a result, nuclear heating rate can be reduced about 25% by replacing the material of the first mirror (plasma facing mirror) from molybdenum to SUS316. Also it was found that nuclear heating rate of other mirrors can decrease about 65% by replacing materials from SUS316 to Aluminium. As described above, the appropriate material for each optical mirrors can be selected by nutronic analysis.
Kamiya, Kensaku; Honda, Mitsuru; Urano, Hajime; Yoshida, Maiko; Kamada, Yutaka
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In this study, we perform to identify the boundary condition for the toroidal plasma flow, which is known to play an important role for an improved plasma stability and/or confinement, to improve the prediction in the plasma core region by a code, experimentally. Boundary condition of toroidal plasma flow imposed at the separatrix in JT-60U ELMy H-mode plasmas has been identified, comparing between co- and counter-NBI discharges. Toroidal plasma flow at the separatrix can become non-zero value, varying with momentum input direction, but being unaffected by the ELM event. The results indicate that the viscosity damping due to SOL flow through ion-neutral collision may not affect strongly ion parallel momentum transfer.
Nakano, Tomohide; Shumack, A.*; Maggi, C. F.*; Reinke, M.*; Lawson, K.*; P
tterich, T.*; Brezinsek, S.*; Lipschultz, B.*; Matthews, G. F.*; Chernyshova, M.*; et al.
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In an European tokamak device, JET, an existing high-resolution X-ray crystal spectrometer was upgraded together with installation of the W divertor for the purpose of monitoring the W density in the core plasma. We have identified W
, W
and Mo
lines by comparing the spectrum observed by this spectrometer and that calculated by an atomic structure code. Further, from the intensities of these spectral lines, the W density and the Mo density over an electron density were determined to be 
and 
, respectively. The determined W density was in good agreement with that from another spectrometer. In addition, the plasma effective charge evaluated from the continuum intensity observed by the X-ray spectrometer was in agreement with that from a visible spectrometer within a factor of three. From these agreements, it is probable that the determined W and Mo density are valid. In contrast, the determined W density is only 15% compared with that from an soft X-ray array measurement. This inconsistency will be investigated in the near future.
Shiraishi, Junya; Miyato, Naoaki; Matsunaga, Go
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Sato, Satoshi; Iida, Hiromasa*; Tanigawa, Hisashi; Hirose, Takanori; Ochiai, Kentaro; Konno, Chikara; Enoeda, Mikio
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Shielding analyses have been performed on the ITER/TBM and its port by using Monte Carlo radiation transport calculation code MCNP and activation calculation code ACT-4. CAD data were automatically converted to MCNP data on the TBM, shield, pipes and bio-shield by the CAD/MCNP conversion code, and their MCNP data have been inserted to the ITER 40 degree model. We evaluated the effective dose rate in operation, nuclear heating, tritium production rate, effective dose rate after shutdown and induced activity.