Technological aspects of liquid lithium limiter experiment on FTU tokamak

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 82, Issue 15-24, 2007, Pages 1627-1633

  Vertkov, A ^a   Luyblinski, I ^a   Evtikhin, V ^a   Mazzitelli, G ^b   Apicella, M L ^b   Lazarev, V ^c   Alekseyev, A ^c   Khomyakov, S ^d  

^a Federal State Unitary Enterprise   (Russian Federation)

^b ASSOCIAZIONE EURATOM ENEA SULLA FUSIONE   (Italy)

^c TROITSK INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATION AND FUSION RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^d DOLLEZHAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF POWER ENGINEERING NIKIET   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

FTU; Liquid lithium; Plasma facing components; Wall conditioning

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; MAGNETIC FIELDS; THERMAL LOAD;

LIQUID LITHIUM LIMITER (LLL); PLASMA FACING COMPONENTS; PLASMA FACING MATERIAL; RECYCLING REDUCTION; WALL CONDITIONING;

TOKAMAK DEVICES;

EID: 35148819775     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2007.05.009     Document Type: Article

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