Operation of the tokamak fusion test reactor tritium systems during initial tritium experiments

✍ Scribed by J.L Anderson; C Gentile; M Kalish; J Kamperschroer; T Kozub; P Lamarche; H Murray; A Nagy; S Raftopoulos; R Rossmassler; R Sissingh; J Swanson; F Tulipano; M Viola; D Voorhees; R.T Walters

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 473 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-3796
• DOI: 10.1016/0920-3796(95)90040-3

✦ Synopsis

The high power D-T experiments on the tokamak fusion test reactor (TFTR) at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory commenced in November 1993. During initial operation of the tritium systems a number of start-up problems surfaced and had to be corrected. These were corrected through a series of system modifications and upgrades and by repair of failed or inadequate components. Even as these operational concerns were being addressed, the tritium systems continued to support D-T operations on the tokamak. During the first six months of D-T operations more than 107 kCi of tritium were processed successfully by the tritium systems. D-T experiments conducted at TFTR during this period provided significant new data. Fusion power in excess of 9 MW was achieved in May 1994. This paper describes some of the early start-up issues, and reports on the operation of the tritium system and the tritium tracking and accounting system during the early phase of TFTR D T experiments.