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A New High Flux Plasma Source Testing Platform for the CRAFT Project

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As a part of Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology (CRAFT) project, a large superconducting linear plasma testing facility will be built to evaluate candidate plasma-facing materials and component mockups for China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR). Powerful plasma source is a key component to produce reactor-relevant particle flux for material irradiation purpose. To develop source technology, a new testing platform is built at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP). This platform utilizes conventional water-cooled magnets to sustain a steady-state field strength of > 7000 G and is equipped with a pump train of 4500 m3h− 1, making it capable to evaluate various plasma sources with a fueling rate up to several standard liter per minute (SLM). The ion flux can be measured with a water-cooled target probe. At present, intense plasma beam with an ion flux of > 1023 m− 2 s− 1 has been achieved with a cascaded arc source in this platform. Further testing on the lifetime of source components is ongoing. New cascaded arc type sources based on non-cylinder plasma column concept has been proposed to increase irradiation area and will be tested as well. After finishing source R&D mission, this platform will be upgraded into a plasma-material interaction research facility and open to all researchers in the community.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology Program of China under Contract No. 2018-000052-73-01-001228 and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS (No. 2018484). The authors would like to thank Dr. G.D. Temmerman from ITER organization, Dr. T.W. Morgan and Dr. H.J.N. van Eck from Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER) as well as Dr. Ch. Linsmeier and Dr. B. Unterberg from Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH for their kind suggestions to our facility.

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  1. Institute of Plasma Physics, HFIPS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, Anhui, China

    Hai-Shan Zhou, Xiao-Gang Yuan, Bo Li, Hao-Dong Liu, Guang-Nan Luo, Jun-Ling Chen & Yun-Tao Song

  2. University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230031, Anhui, China

    Hai-Shan Zhou, Xiao-Gang Yuan, Guang-Nan Luo, Jun-Ling Chen & Yun-Tao Song

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Zhou, HS., Yuan, XG., Li, B. et al. A New High Flux Plasma Source Testing Platform for the CRAFT Project. J Fusion Energ 39, 355–360 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10894-020-00277-y

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