Recent developments in support of the shattered pellet technique for disruption mitigation

• Published in: 2015 IEEE 26th Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE) pp. 1 - 7
• Main Authors: Combs, S. K., Meitner, S. J., Gebhart, T. E., Baylor, L. R., Caughman, J. B. O., Fehling, D. T., Foust, C. R., Ha, T., Lyttle, M. S., Fisher, J. T., Younkin, T. R.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.05.2015
• Subjects: Cameras; deuterium; disruption mitigation; Electron tubes; Helium; neon; plasma; Plasmas; Propulsion; shattered pellet; Testing; Valves

The technology for producing, accelerating, and shattering large pellets (before injection into plasmas) for disruption mitigation has been under development at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for several years, including a system on DIII-D that has been used to provide some significant experiment...