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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483262603321

Titolo

Plasma-Material Interactions in a Controlled Fusion Reactor / / by Tetsuo Tanabe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

981-16-0328-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 207 p. 110 illus., 78 illus. in color.)

Collana

Springer Series in Plasma Science and Technology, , 2511-2015

Disciplina

621.484

Soggetti

Nuclear fusion

Materials

Catalysis

Force and energy

Materials - Analysis

High temperature plasmas

Physics

Nuclear Fusion

Materials for Energy and Catalysis

Characterization and Analytical Technique

High Temperature Plasma

Applied and Technical Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Discharges in Current Tokamaks -- Power Load on Plasma Facing Materials -- Responses of Plasma Facing Surfaces to Heat and Particle Loads -- Erosion and Deposition & their Influence on Plasma Behavior (Material Transport in Tokamak) -- Material Modification by High Power Load and its Influence on Plasma -- Fundamentals of Hydrogen Recycling and Retention -- PMI in Large Tokamaks -- Estimation of T Retention in a Reactor -- Selection of PFM Materials -- Closing Remarks.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a primer on the interplay between plasma and materials in a fusion reactor, so-called plasma–materials interactions (PMIs), highlighting materials and their influence on plasma through PMI. It



aims to demonstrate that a plasma-facing surface (PFS) responds actively to fusion plasma and that the clarifying nature of PFS is indispensable to understanding the influence of PFS on plasma. It describes the modern insight into PMI, namely, relevant feedback to plasma performance from plasma-facing material (PFM) on changes in a material surface by plasma power load by radiation and particles, contrary to a conventional view that unilateral influence from plasma on PFM is dominant in PMI. There are many books and reviews on PMI in the context of plasma physics, that is, how plasma or plasma confinement works in PMI. By contrast, this book features a materials aspect in PMI focusing on changes caused by heat and particle load from plasma: how PFMs are changed by plasma exposure and then, accordingly, how the changed PFM interacts with plasma.