Manufacturing, testing and installation of the full tungsten actively cooled ITER-like divertor in the WEST tokamak - CEA - Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
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Manufacturing, testing and installation of the full tungsten actively cooled ITER-like divertor in the WEST tokamak

H Greuner
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G Luo

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The WEST (W - for tungsten - Environment in Steady-state Tokamak) platform aims to support the ITER tungsten divertor technology, manufacturing and long pulse operation. For this purpose, the Tore Supra tokamak has been deeply modified (mainly the installation of a lower and upper divertor coil structure), enabling a restart in 2016 and a first phase of operation (Phase I) until the end of 2020. Following this first phase, a limited number of actively cooled PFUs (Plasma Facing Units), based on ITER divertor technology, were industrially produced and implemented into the WEST vacuum vessel. The second phase of operation (Phase II) will be with a full actively cooled divertor. The first WEST experimental campaign with this new configuration (Phase II) started in 2022. This paper reports on the key elements related to the large-scale industrial production, the reception tests, and the installation of the ITER-like divertor components (including embedded instrumentation) into the WEST tokamak. Main manufacturing issues as well as the reception strategy, in particular the handling of non-conformities, are highlighted, mentioning its relevance with ITER divertor specifications. Results related to the assessment of heat removal capability by IR thermography examination and high heat flux test, as well as the He-leak tightness control are also discussed.

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cea-04619420 , version 1 (03-10-2024)

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Marc Missirlian, M. Firdaouss, Marianne Richou, C. Hernandez, L Gargiulo, et al.. Manufacturing, testing and installation of the full tungsten actively cooled ITER-like divertor in the WEST tokamak. Fusion Engineering and Design, 2023, 193, pp.113683. ⟨10.1016/j.fusengdes.2023.113683⟩. ⟨cea-04619420⟩
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