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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 20, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.4802195
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- USDoE [DE-AC02-09CH11466, DE-AC05-00OR22725]
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The Lithium Tokamak eXperiment is a small, low aspect ratio tokamak [Majeski et al., Nucl. Fusion 49, 055014 (2009)], which is fitted with a stainless steel-clad copper liner, conformal to the last closed flux surface. The liner can be heated to 350 degrees C. Several gas fueling systems, including supersonic gas injection and molecular cluster injection, have been studied and produce fueling efficiencies up to 35%. Discharges are strongly affected by wall conditioning. Discharges without lithium wall coatings are limited to plasma currents of order 10 kA, and discharge durations of order 5 ms. With solid lithium coatings discharge currents exceed 70 kA, and discharge durations exceed 30 ms. Heating the lithium wall coating, however, results in a prompt degradation of the discharge, at the melting point of lithium. These results suggest that the simplest approach to implementing liquid lithium walls in a tokamak-thin, evaporated, liquefied coatings of lithium-does not produce an adequately clean surface. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC
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