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Transient heating effects on tungsten: Ablation of Be layers and enhanced fuzz growth

  • J.H. Yu*
  • , M.J. Baldwin
  • , R.P. Doerner
  • , T. Dittmar
  • , Antti Hakola
  • , T. Höschen
  • , Jari Likonen
  • , D. Nishijima
  • , H.H. Toudeshki
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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    Abstract

    A pulsed laser in the PISCES-B facility is used to simulate transient heating events such as ELMs and disruptions on W. The first study of enhanced nano-scale W tendril growth (''fuzz'') due to cyclic fast transient heating of W exposed to low energy (EHe+ 30 eV) He+ ions is presented. Fuzz due to transient heating is up to 10 thicker than the steady state fuzz thickness with no laser heating. A general thermal activation model yields higher values for the activation energy and pre-exponential factor than previously reported in steady state experiments with EHe+ 60 eV. Transient heating of W exposed to D plasma with Be seeding shows that the removal threshold of Be follows simple energy considerations based on the heat of formation of Be.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)299-302
    JournalJournal of Nuclear Materials
    Volume463
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015
    MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

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