Bulk-boronized graphites for plasma-facing components in ITER
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[en] Newly developed bulk-boronized graphites and boronized C-C composites with a total boron concentration ranging from 1 wt% to 30 wt% have been evaluated as plasma-facing component materials for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). Bulk-boronized graphites have been bombarded with high-flux deuterium plasmas at temperatures between 200 and 1600deg C. Plasma interaction induced erosion of bulk-boronized graphites is observed to be a factor of 2-3 smaller than that of pyrolytic graphite, in regimes of physical sputtering, chemical sputtering and radiation enhanced sublimation. Postbombardment thermal desorption spectroscopy indicates that bulk-boronized graphites enhance recombinative desorption of deuterium, which leads to a suppression of the formation of deuterocarbon due to chemical sputtering. The tritium inventory in graphite has been found to decrease by an order or magnitude due to 10 wt% bulk-boronization at temperatures above 1000deg C. The critical heat flux to induce cracking for bulk-boronized graphites has been found to be essentially the same as that for non-boronized graphites. Also, 10 wt% bulk-boronization of graphite hinders air oxidation nearly completely at 800deg C and reduces the steam oxidation rate by a factor of 2-3 at around 1100 and 1350deg C. (orig.)
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9. international conference on plasma-surface interactions in controlled fusion devices (PSI-9); Bournemouth (UK); 21-25 May 1990
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BORON, BORON ADDITIONS, COMPOSITE MATERIALS, DEUTERIUM, EROSION, EXPERIMENTAL DATA, FIRST WALL, GRAPHITE, HEAT FLUX, HIGH TEMPERATURE, ITER TOKAMAK, OXIDATION, PHYSICAL RADIATION EFFECTS, SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY, SPUTTERING, SUBLIMATION, TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE, TIME DEPENDENCE, VERY HIGH TEMPERATURE
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CARBON, CHEMICAL REACTIONS, CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES, DATA, ELECTRON MICROSCOPY, ELEMENTS, EVAPORATION, HYDROGEN ISOTOPES, INFORMATION, ISOTOPES, LIGHT NUCLEI, MATERIALS, MICROSCOPY, NONMETALS, NUCLEI, NUMERICAL DATA, ODD-ODD NUCLEI, PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS, RADIATION EFFECTS, SEMIMETALS, STABLE ISOTOPES, THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES, THERMONUCLEAR REACTOR WALLS, TOKAMAK DEVICES
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