Thermal control of the liquid lithium divertor for NSTX

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 84, Issue 7-11, 2009, Pages 1438-1441

  Nygren, Richard E ^a   Harjes, H Charles ^a   Wakeland, Peter ^b   Ellis, Robert ^c   Kugel, Henry W ^c   Kaita, Robert ^c   Berzak, Laura ^c   Zakharov, Leonid ^c   Ehrhart, Brian ^d  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b KTECH CORPORATION   (United States)

^c PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Divertor; Lithium; NSTX

Indexed keywords

CARTRIDGE HEATER; COPPER PLATE; DESIGN REQUIREMENTS; DIVERTOR; DIVERTOR TILES; HEAT LOADS; HELIUM COOLING; LIQUID LITHIUM; MELTING TEMPERATURES; NATIONAL SPHERICAL TORUS EXPERIMENTS; NSTX; SURFACE LAYERS; THERMAL CONTROL; THERMAL PERFORMANCE;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BUILDING MATERIALS; COPPER CLAD STEEL; DUST COLLECTORS; EVAPORATORS; EXPERIMENTS; FLAME SPRAYING; GRAPHITE; HELIUM; LIQUIDS; MELTING POINT; MOLYBDENUM; PROTECTIVE COATINGS; STAINLESS STEEL; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMOCOUPLES; THERMOMETERS;

LITHIUM;

EID: 67349245520     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2008.11.098     Document Type: Article

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