Abstract
A new divertor concept REVOLVER-D2 that uses metal pebbles as a divertor target has been proposed for the LHD-type helical fusion reactor FFHR-c1. Demonstration of sufficient plasma shielding rate is one of the important issues to show the feasibility of the REVOLVER-D2. For this purpose, an experiment on the plasma irradiation to the metal pebble flow has been conducted in the sheet plasma device TPDsheet-U in Tokai University. Reduction of the ion flux and electron density in the metal pebble flow was observed and it was confirmed that the metal pebble flow can play the role of the divertor target. The measured shielding rate is consistent with the prediction by the model based on the Lambert-Beer-Bouger’s law. Achievement of the shielding rate of > 72 % is expected in the FFHR-c1 using the nozzle with the size of > 310 mm × 310 mm and the pebble flow with the diameter of 5 mm.
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