Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: It has been known for a long time that microscopic dust appears in plasmas in fusion devices. Recently it was shown that dust can be responsible for the termination of long- discharges. Also, in ITER-scale experiments dust can pose safety problems related to its chemical activity, tritium retention and radioactive content. In particular, the presence of dust in the vacuum chamber of ITER is one of the main concerns of the ITER licensing process. Here we review recent progress in the understanding of different experimental and theoretical aspects of the physics of dust dynamics and transport in fusion plasmas and discuss the remaining issues.
Authors: S I Krasheninnikov, A Yu Pigarov, R D Smirnov, M Rosenberg, Y Tanaka, D J Benson, T K Soboleva, T D Rognlien, D A Mendis, B D Bray, D L Rudakov, J H Yu, W P West, A L Roquemore, C H Skinner, J L Terry, B Lipschultz, A Bader, R S Granetz, C S Pitcher, N Ohno, S Takamura, S Masuzaki, N Ashikawa, M Shiratani, M Tokitani, R Kumazawa, N Asakura, T Nakano, A M Litnovsky, R Maqueda, the LHD Experimental Group
Institutions: University of California San Diego, Kanazawa University, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, General Atomics (United States), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ITER, Nagoya University, National Institute for Fusion Science, Kyushu University, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Nova Photonics (United States)
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2094548346