increasing chamber armor lifetime with the tamped target design and low-pressure buffer gas
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Increasing chamber armor lifetime with the tamped target design and low-pressure buffer gas. Thad Heltemes and Gregory Moses High Average Power Laser Program 17 th Workshop October 30-31, 2007 Naval Research Laboratory Washington DC. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Increasing chamber armor lifetime with the tamped target design and low-
pressure buffer gas
Thad Heltemes and Gregory MosesHigh Average Power Laser Program
17th Workshop
October 30-31, 2007Naval Research Laboratory
Washington DC
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IEC Helium Ion ImplantationExperimental Results
Two first-wall assembly lifetime limits are approximately 2 FPY
• Neutron damage (100 DPA).– 3 FPY lifetime
• Thermal stress due to rapid cyclical temperature rise.– 2400˚C for tungsten or 1000˚C
for silicon carbide limits.– 2 FPY lifetime
• Morphology change and armor erosion due to alpha implantation.– Onset at ~1017 ions/cm2
– 7.5 FPD to onset– Low-energy alpha erosion of
tungsten armor ~1 µm per 1019 ions/cm2.
– 2 FPY lifetime– Significant uncertainty in
tungsten armor lifetime.
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3Preventing alpha induced morphology change by increasing buffer gas pressure is impractical
The key problem with a buffer gas is too many 3.5 MeV alpha particles escape the target and impact the wall
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4Target configurations at time of ignition demonstrate the effect of the tamper on alpha confinement
Compressed DT
AblatedMass
AblatedMass
CHTamper
DT+CHFoam
Compressed DT
Compressed CH Tamper
• The tamper traps 99.5% of the fusion alphas inside the debris plasma
• Alpha particle kinetic energy is partially converted to x-ray energy by interaction with the debris plasma
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5Alpha spectrum comparison of standard HAPL and tamped targets
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6Alpha spectrum at the wall demonstrates the effect of the buffer gas on reducing alpha fluence into the tungsten armor
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7Tamped target exacerbates tungsten surface temperature response when combined with minimal buffer gas.
~3x x-rayyield
No high-energyalphas
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8Tungsten surface temperature comparison of standard HAPL target with no buffer gas and the tamped target with sufficient gas to stop low-energy alphas
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9Tungsten surface temperature comparison of standard HAPL target with no buffer gas and the tamped target with sufficient gas to stop low-energy alphas
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10Alpha penetration into tungsten for the HAPL standard target with 0.5 mtorr helium buffer gas
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11Alpha penetration into near-surface tungsten for the HAPL standard target and 0.5 mtorr helium buffer gas
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12Alpha penetration into tungsten for the tamped target and 0.5 mtorr helium buffer gas
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13Alpha penetration into tungsten for the tamped target and 11.6 mtorr helium buffer gas
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14Conclusions and future work
• A tamped target with no buffer gas increases the temperature transient of the tungsten armor surface to both x-rays and debris ions to unacceptable maxima.
• A tamped target along with He buffer gas meets the thermal constraints of the tungsten armor surface but does not sufficiently reduce the alpha particle fluence to the tungsten armor to avoid the onset of morphology change.
• The onset of morphology change in tungsten armor is a limiting parameter in this design option. Trace numbers of alphas lead to morphology change.
• What is the cross field alpha particle leakage in the magnetic protection approach?
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15Extra slides
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16X-ray yield of tamped target is ~3x larger than the HAPL standard target
4.9 MJ
15.4 MJ
A note of caution: we are comparing the x-ray yield of a tamped target simulated with the BUCKY code to the standard HAPL target simulated by LLNL.
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17Proton spectrum comparison, 365 MJ Fusion Yield
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18Deuteron spectrum comparison, 365 MJ Yield
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19Trition spectrum comparison, 365 MJ Fusion Yield