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Results are presented from L-2M stellarator experiments on testing a possible method for detection of water microleakages in the cooling system of the first wall and vacuum chamber of ITER. The method consists in the spectroscopic detection of spectral lines of the OH hydroxyl, which forms via the dissociation of water molecules in plasma. Emission in the spectral band of 305–310 nm can be detected even at water leakage rates less than 10−4 Pa m3/s. Chemical reactions between water and boron compounds on the vacuum chamber wall delay the detection of leakages up to ∼2000 s. A similar phenomenon can be expected when a leakage will occur in ITER, where the materials suggested for the first wall (Be, Li) can also chemically react with water.
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Original Russian Text © G.S. Voronov, M.S. Berezhetskii, Yu.F. Bondar’, I.Yu. Vafin, D.G. Vasil’kov, E.V. Voronova, S.E. Grebenshchikov, I.A. Grishina, N.F. Larionova, A.A. Letunov, V.P. Logvinenko, A.I. Meshcheryakov, E.I. Pleshkov, Yu.V. Khol’nov, O.I. Fedyanin, V.A. Tsygankov, S. V. Shchepetov, V. A. Kurnaev, I.V. Vizgalov, V.A. Urusov, I.A. Sorokin, F.S. Podolyako, A. Antipenkov, R. Pearce, L. Worth, 2013, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2013, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 313–325.
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Voronov, G.S., Berezhetskii, M.S., Bondar’, Y.F. et al. Testing of the method for water microleakage detection from OH hydroxyl spectral lines at the L-2M stellarator. Plasma Phys. Rep. 39, 277–288 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X13040090
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