Design study of JT-60SA divertor for high heat and particle controllability

Abstract

The modification of JT-60 to a fully superconducting coil tokamak, JT-60SA (JT-60 Super Advanced) device, has been programmed to contribute and supplement ITER toward to DEMO. Lower divertor design with the ITER-like lower single null divertor configuration is studied to obtain high heat and particle controllability using SOLDOR/NEUT2D code. With anticipated total power flux into SOL of 37 MW (90% of input power), the peak heat load on outer divertor target can be reduced to 5.8 MW/m 2 at the detached condition by gas puffing in the vertical divertor target with the “V-shaped corner”. It is ∼2/5 of the allowable level of 15 MW/m 2. On the other hand, particle controllability such as control of detached to attached condition by divertor pumping is improved by increase the strike point distance from 20 to 120 mm with above divertor geometry, suggesting that recover from severe detachment at the small distance case can be achieving by elevation of the strike point locations. Optimization of upper divertor design is in progress for high β steady-state operation using upper single null divertor configuration.