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Takahashi, Koji; Abe, Ganji; Isozaki, Masami; Oda, Yasuhisa; Sakamoto, Keishi; Kobayashi, Noriyuki*; Iida, Hiromasa*; Abe, Teruo*; Komatsuzaki, Manabu*
Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE-23) (DVD-ROM), 6 Pages, 2015/05
An ITER equatorial EC launcher has been designed to inject a 170GHz, 20MW millimeter (mm) wave beam to plasma with poloidal steering functionality in order to obtain more driven current at the peripheral region of plasma. The equatorial launcher has three sets of mm-wave beam row and each is composed of eight waveguide lines and a quasi-optical transmission region that is formed by a steering and fixed mirror, locating in front of the waveguide outlet. The millimeter wave design to accomplish the high transmission efficiency more than 99% and to compliant with the requirement (criteria) on heat load on the mirrors and beam size at the resonance location of plasma has been successfully developed. This optimized configuration of the millimeter wave components ensures that both mm-wave beams from the middle and bottom row pass through the same BSM opening and then, the feasible and reliable design of BSMs can be carried out. The nuclear analysis of this design modification shows that the residual dose rate at the launcher back end is reduced by 20%, compared to the previous design, which has three openings. This paper reports that the design optimization of the mm-wave design of the equatorial launcher with poloidal beam scan functionality, enhancing the off axis current drive is developed and ensures the effective mm-wave propagation, feasible design of the EL BSMs and nuclear shield structure. The design of the associated structural components such as the port plug and internal shield is also reported.
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 
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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.
Takahashi, Koji; Abe, Ganji; Isozaki, Masami; Kobayashi, Noriyuki*; Shidara, Hiroyuki; Oda, Yasuhisa; Ikeda, Ryosuke; Kobayashi, Takayuki; Moriyama, Shinichi; Sakamoto, Keishi
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An ITER equatorial EC launcher has been designed to inject a 170 GHz, 20 MW millimeter wave beam to plasma with poloidal steering functionality in order to obtain more driven current at the peripheral region of plasma. The millimeter wave design to accomplish the high transmission efficiency more than 99% and to compliant with the requirement on heat load on the mirror s and beam size at the resonance location of plasma has been successfully developed. The mock-up to simulate the millimeter wave propagation in the launcher based on the design modification of the beam path is fabricated and the low power experiment is in progress. The field pattern measurement at the mock-up outlet indicates the validity of the design optimization of mirror's and the waveguide set-up. The design of the millimeter wave beam path for poloidal steering launcher and the experiments of the launcher mock-up are reported in detail at the workshop.
