1 - Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Date published-July 1985
Prepared by the
OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LAB
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831
operated by
Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc.
for the
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Reports previously issued in this series are as follows:
ORNL-2693 Period Ending January 31, 1959
ORNL-2802 Period Ending July 31, 1959
ORNL-2926 Period Eaading January 31, 1960
ORWL-3011 Period Ending July 31, 1960
ORNL - 3 10 4 Period Ending January 31, 1961
ORN L-3239 Period Ending October 31, 1961
ORNL-33 15 Period Ending April 30, 1962
OKNL-33 92 Period Ending October 31, 1962
ORNL-3472 Period Ending April 30, 1963
OR L,- 3 5 64 Period Ending October 3 1, 1963
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ORNL-3652 Period Ending April 36, 1964
ORN L- 3 760 Period Ending October 3 1, 1964
OM NL- 38 3 6 Period Ending April 30, 1965
ORNL-3908 Period Ending October 3 1, 1965
0R N L- 39 8 9 Period Ending April 30, 1966
0 W L-4063 Period Eilding October 31, 1966
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ORNL-4150 Period Ending April 30, 1967
OWN L-423 8 Period Ending October 3 1, 1967
ORNL-440 1 Period Ending Dccembei 31, 1968
OKNL-4545 Period Ending December 31, 1969
ORNL-4688 Period Ending December 3 1, 1970
ORNL-4793 Period Ending December 31, 1971
ORNL-4896 Period Ending December 3 1, 1972
ORNL-498 2 Period Ending December 3 1, 1973
ORNL-5853 Pcriod Ending December 31, 1974
OKNL-5 154 Period Ending December 3 1, 1975
ORNL-5275 Period Ending I)ecember 31, 1976
ORNL-540.5 Period Ending Decembcr 31, 1977
ORNL-5 549 Period Ending Uecember 31, 1978
OR N LA-5 645 Period Ending December 3 1, 1979
ORNL-5674 Period Ending December 31, 1980
ORNL-5843 Period Ending December 3 1, 198 1
OWNL-59 19 Period Ending Dccernber 31, 1982
OMNL-6015 Period Ending December 31, 1933
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CONTENTS
LIST OFTABLES ....................................................... vii
LIST OF FIGURES ..................................................... ix
SUMMARY .. .. .................................... xv
1. TOROIDAL CONFINEMENT EXPERIMENTS ............... . . . 1-1
SUMMARY OF ACTlVITIES ................ ..................... 1-5
1.1 THE ISX-B EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM .................... 1-5
1.2 THE ATF PROGRAM. ...... ............................ 1-27
1.3 ADVANCED PROJECTS ........................................ 1-41
1.4 THE ORNL-JEN COLLABORATION ON TJ-I1 .... ............ 1-50
1.5 THE ORNL-PPPL COLLABORATION ON TFTR ................. 1-57
REFERENCES ................ .. ............................. 1-59
2. EBT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ............................. 2-1
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES ........................................ 2-5
2.1 EBT RESEARCH ....................... .... ..... 2-5
2.2 EBT-P PROJECT ......... .. ............................ 2-44
2.3 EBT ADVANCED CONCEP ................................. 2-45
REFERENCES ................................ ..... ...... 2-52
3. ATOMIC PHYSICS AND PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS DEVELOPMENT . . 3-1
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES ........................................ 3-5
3.1 EXPERIMENTAL ATOMIC COLLISIONS ....................... 3-6
3.2 ATOMIC THEORY .......... ................................ 3-25
3.3 CONTROLLED FUSION ATOMIC DATA CENTER ............. 3-33
3.4 PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS DEVELOPMENT ................... 3-34
REFERENCES ..................................................... 3-46
4. PLASMA THEORY ................................................. 4-1
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES ...................... ... . 4-9
4,1 QUILIBRIUM, STABILITY, AND TURBULENCE ......... 4- 1 1
4.2 PORT KINETICS: KINETIC THEORY ................... 4-29
4.3 RF j-lEATING AND C ..................
4-43
4.4 CONFINEMENT OPT VEMENT ........ 4-48
4.5 SMA MODELING, BURN ANALYSIS,
URITIES, AND PELLETS ................................... 4-53
4.6 ALPHA PARTICLE PHYSICS ............... ............
4.4 EXPERIMENT INTERPRETATION ......... ................ 4-61
4.8 COMPUTING SUPPORT ......................... ...
REFERENCES. . ............................................... 4-74
ATERIALS INTERACTIONS ............ .............. 5-1
OF ACTIVITIES ........................................ 5-5
ARY OF “TIME-RESOLVED IMPURITY FLUXES
IN THE TEXTOR PLASMA EDGE”. ............................. 5-5
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5.2 ABSTRACT OF "THE INFLUENCE OF IMPUMI'I'IES
ON THE HIGH-'I'EMPERATURE SP%JTTERINGY IELD
OF GKkFB-IITE" 5-8
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5.3 IN SITU EROSION STUDIES Wl'l'M LASER
FLUBRbSCENCE TECHNIQUES 5-10
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5.4 WALL CONUITiONING AND CAWB0NIZA'h"ION FUR
CONTROL OF IMPURITIES AND HYDROGEN RECYCLE 5-11
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5.5 EXPERIMENTS ON IMPURITY AND PARTICLE CONTROL
IN ISX-€3 5-13
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5.6 PLASMA-MATF, R IAIS INTERACTION STUDIES DTJRING
THE SET-ISX BERYLLIUM LIMII'ER EXIUEKIMEN'I' 5-14
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REFERENCES 5-19
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6 . PLASMA TECWNOi,O GY ...........................................
PB-':mm
4.2 FUELING ............................................. 5-9
5.3 RF HEATING 6-22
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6.4 GY~RO"I'R0MD EVELOPMENT 6-33
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REFERENCES 6-36
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7 . SI.JPEMCONDIJ@TInGM AGNET DEVELOPMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
SUMMARY OF ACTIVL'I'IES 4-5
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7.1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
7.2 LARGE COlL TASK 5-6
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7.3 ADVANCED COWPIIJCTOW DEVELOPMENT 7-13
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7.4 MAGNET TECHNOLOGY ...................................... 7-P5
REFERENCES 7-18
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8 . ADVANCED SYSTEM STUDIES ..................................... 8-1
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES 8-5
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8.1 FUSION ENGIN-EEKINGD ESIGN- ..................... 8 -5
8.2 FUSION ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT PROGRAM . . . . . . . . . 8-67
WE~EBEMCES 8-68
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9 . MATERIBLS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ..................... 9-1
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES 9-5
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9.1 ALLOY DEVELOPMENT FOR IRRADIATION PERFORMANCE . . 9-6
9.2 MA'TEKIALS @OMPA'H'IBFZITY-ABSTRACTS 9-11
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9.3 DAMAGE ANALYSIS AND FUNDAMENTAL
STUDIES-ABSTRACTS 9-11
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REFERENCES 9-14
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10. NEUTRON TRAPIJSPORT ............................................ 10-1
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES ........................................ 10-5
10.1 ABS'PKAC'TS ................................................. 10-5
10.2 DA'I'A EVALIJATION AND PROCESSING FOR FUSION
NEUTRONIC DATA NEEDS ................................... 10-7
10.3 RADIATION SHIELDING INFORMATION CENTER . . . . . . . . . . . 10-8
REFEKE.NCES ...................................................... 10-3
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11. GEN NETIC FUSION REACT0 ANALYSIS .............. 11-1
SUM ACTlY $TIES ............ ........................... 11-3
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E!W'F ......................................... 12-1
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OF ACTIVITIES ........................................ 12-5
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NS OFFICE ...................................... 12-9
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TABLES
Table 1.1. ATP; device parameters ......................................... 1-31
Table 1.2. Major coil characteristics ........................................ 1-31
Table 1.3. ATF coil joint design limits ..................................... 1-35
Table 1.4. ATF coil joint parameters ....................................... 1-36
Table 1.5. Parameters of ATF-hased torsatrons .............................. 1-44
Table 3.1. ORNL ECR source parameters .................................. 3-8
Table 4.1. Comparison of 3-I6 MD inverse-eoordinates codes ..... ......... 4-18
Table 5.1, Time-averaged retained impurity fluxes in the electron drift
direction for ohmic hydrogen discharges in TEXTOR ..... 5-6
Table 8.1. FPD engineering parameters ............................... 8-6
Table 8.2. TFCX option characteristics. ........... ...................... 8-16
Table 8.3, Plasma transport models ........................................ 8-28
Table 8.4. TF coil requfccments and parameters ............................. 8-34
Table 8.5. Nuclear heat capability for three cooling system configurations ....... 8-38
Table 8.6. CCTF parameters ...... ............................... 8-43
Table 8.7. Reference parameters for a nominal IST .......................... 8-50
Table 1 1.1. Parameters of improved fusion reactors with thermal power
P, of 3750 MW(t) ............................................ 11-5
Table 12.1. Fusion Program expense funding-- budget outlay .................. 12-8
Table 12.2. Production and work-hours for CY 1984 ......................... 12-10
Table 12.3. Volume of publication services. ................................. 12-11
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