Hydrogen retention and carbon deposition in plasma facing components and the shadowed area of JT-60U

Abstract

In JT-60U, erosion/deposition analyses of the plasma facing wall have shown that local carbon transport in the inboard direction was appreciable in addition to long-range transport. The total deposition and erosion rates in the divertor region were ∼1 × 1021 C atoms s−1 and ∼−6 × 1020 C atoms s−1, respectively. About 40% of the deposition in the divertor region likely originates from the main chamber wall. At the plasma facing surfaces of the divertor region, the highest hydrogen concentration in the (H + D)/C ratio and the retention amount were found to be ∼0.13 and ∼1 × 1023 atoms m−2, respectively. In the plasma-shadowed area underneath the divertor region with a vacuum vessel baking temperature of 420 K, redeposited layers of ∼2 µm thickness were found with a high hydrogen concentration of ∼0.75 in (H + D)/C, which was nearly the same level as that observed in JET. Large deuterium retention was also observed at the main chamber wall covered with boron layers. Their H + D retention and (H + D)/C were ∼1 × 1023 atoms m−2 and ∼0.16, respectively, for the vacuum vessel temperature of 570 K. Such a high deuterium retention is most likely caused by D retained in the boron layers. Nevertheless, the integration of this retention over the whole main chamber wall results in significant inventory and needs further investigation.