Commissioning of the first WEST load-resilient long pulse ICRF launcher in the TITAN testbed and on WEST plasmas

Jean Michel Bernard; Walid Helou; Patrick Mollard; Jean Marc Delaplanche; Etienne Delmas; Frédéric Durodié; Fabien Ferlay; Jean Claude Hatchressian; Julien Hillairet; Gilles Lombard; Franck Samaille; Yuntao Song; Jean Marc Verger; Qingxi Yang; Yong Shen Wang

doi:10.1016/j.fusengdes.2019.03.033

Commissioning of the first WEST load-resilient long pulse ICRF launcher in the TITAN testbed and on WEST plasmas

Jean Michel Bernard, Walid Helou, Patrick Mollard, Jean Marc Delaplanche, Etienne Delmas, Frédéric Durodié, Fabien Ferlay, Jean Claude Hatchressian, Julien Hillairet, Gilles Lombard, Franck Samaille, Yuntao Song, Jean Marc Verger, Qingxi Yang, Yong Shen Wang

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Before the installation of the first ICRF launcher in WEST, dedicated RF, cold and hot leak tests have been performed in the TITAN test bed [1,2] (Bernard et al., 2011a,b). All the water circuits have been controlled in order to avoid any in-vessel leak. The impedance matching has been checked at low level (mW range) and the high RF voltage standoff has been validated at the nominal value of 27 kV peak. During the WEST C3a campaign, the commissioning of the first antenna has been successfully performed. About 0.6 MW of power has been coupled to the plasma, and the launcher's load-resilience has been proved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1778-1781
Number of pages	4
Journal	Fusion Engineering and Design
Volume	146
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2019.03.033
Publication status	Published - Sept 2019

Keywords

Commissioning
ICRF antenna
Leak test
Load-resilience
WEST

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Bernard, J. M., Helou, W., Mollard, P., Delaplanche, J. M., Delmas, E., Durodié, F., Ferlay, F., Hatchressian, J. C., Hillairet, J., Lombard, G., Samaille, F., Song, Y., Verger, J. M., Yang, Q., & Wang, Y. S. (2019). Commissioning of the first WEST load-resilient long pulse ICRF launcher in the TITAN testbed and on WEST plasmas. Fusion Engineering and Design, 146, 1778-1781. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2019.03.033

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