Beryllium application in ITER plasma facing components

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 261-286

  Raffray, A R ^a   Federici, G ^a   Barabash, V ^a   Pacher, H D ^a   Bartels, H W ^b   Cardella, A ^a   Jakeman, R ^a   Ioki, K ^a   Janeschitz, G ^a   Parker, R ^a   Tivey, R ^a   Wu, C H ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PLASMAPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b San Diego JWS   (United States)

Author keywords

Armour lifetime; Fabrication; ITER; Sputtering erosion; Vaporisation

Indexed keywords

ARMOR; EROSION; SERVICE LIFE; SPUTTERING; TOKAMAK DEVICES; VAPORIZATION;

PLASMA FACING COMPONENTS;

BERYLLIUM;

EID: 0031221257     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-3796(97)00052-5     Document Type: Article

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