Advanced design of the ITER core CXRS shutter and integration into the diagnostic shield module of the Upper Port Plug No. 3

Abstract

For the ITER core CXRS diagnostic, a shutter is mandatory to protect the first mirror when no measurement takes place. With the continuing design development of the diagnostic and the knowledge obtained from previous shutter prototypes, the frictionless fast shutter did undergo some design changes and manufacturing improvements without degrading the performance (opening/closing <1 s). In this paper, the major modifications of the shutter design are presented. An adjustment system was developed to allow compensation of manufacturing deviations and precise positioning of the protective blade according to the final aperture position, which is not known before the final assembly with the as-built dimensions of the port plug and diagnostic shield module (DSM). The shutter components and their adjustment systems are implemented into the shutter‘s actively cooled base structure, which in turn simplifies the remote handling procedure. For the helium circuit an activity study is presented, which allows to access the nuclear pressure equipment classification and to determine the number of required purges during the ITER lifetime. With the heat loads obtained from the known heat flow on the blade and from the neutronics analysis, a thermal FE-analysis was performed on the full shutter model by which the expected heat flow at the mechanical interfaces can be given.