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Ioki, Kimihiro*; Hiranai, Shinichi; Moriyama, Shinichi; Tanaka, Suguru*
Fusion Engineering and Design, 109-111(Part A), p.951 - 955, 2016/11
A dummy load dissipates the RF power and is required to test and adjust a gyrotron or a transmission line. The most critical issue is long-term reliability in the vacuum and coolant boundary of the rotation mechanism for current large-scale dummy loads. A new design has been developed to use linear movement for the reflector assembly to mitigate the heat deposition concentration. The thickness distribution of the ceramic layer is carefully analyzed and optimized. A prototypical dummy load will be manufactured as the next step.
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.
Kasugai, Atsushi; Sakamoto, Keishi; Minami, Ryutaro; Takahashi, Koji; Imai, Tsuyoshi
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 528(1-2), p.110 - 114, 2004/08
Times Cited Count：24 Percentile：80.08(Instruments & Instrumentation)The development of the millimeter wave high power gyrotron with the development of a depressed collector, an over sized cavity and a synthesized diamond output window is under going in JAERI. The performances of 170 GHz, 0.9 MW for 9.2 s and 0.5 MW for 30 s were achieved up to now. It was clarified, however, that pulse extension of the gyrotron was limited by sudden outgassing due to stray RF power deposition to the bellows behind movable mirror. For suppression of stray RF power deposition, the structure of the bellows section was improved to avoid the direct power deposition and the surface of bellows was coated by copper for reduction of RF loss and increase of thermal conductivity. As a result of the modification, temperature increase of bellows was reduced to less than 1/10 and time constant of thermal diffusion shortened to 90 s from 270 s in comparison with before the modification. This indicates that the modification is quite effective for suppression of temperature increase.
