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Development of Boron Coatings for antenna protection limiters in the WEST Tokamak

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During the upgrade of Tore Supra to transform the machine into a fully metallic plasma facing environment (WEST), the Antennae Protection Limiters (APL), originally made in CFC, have been covered with a Tungsten coating with a Molybdenum interlayer (W/Mo/CFC). However, due to the aging of the W/Mo/CFC coating, the APL have been redesigned and future antenna limiters will be made of copper alloy (CuCrZr) heat sink structure with a thick boron (B) coating to reduce remaining W impurity levels during plasma operations and address the blistering issues seen in previous coatings. Among all the techniques able to realise B coating, Plasma Spray is the most appropriate technique owing to its simplicity, low cost and ability to deposit thick boron coatings on complex geometries. Various boron coatings with thicknesses up to 900 µm were produced, characterized and their thermal behavior have been assessed using a specific laser heating program and a conventional electron/ion beam facility. This paper provides an overview of the R&D activities on boron coating developments and the related validation programs showing that the thermal conductivity of deposited films is drastically reduced compared to bulk boron, preventing use without additional coating optimization.
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cea-04590200 , version 1 (28-05-2024)

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C. Hernandez, M. Firdaouss, A. Deleau, M. Diez, Marc Missirlian. Development of Boron Coatings for antenna protection limiters in the WEST Tokamak. Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2024, 38, pp.101573. ⟨10.1016/j.nme.2023.101573⟩. ⟨cea-04590200⟩
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