Journal
FUSION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 66, Issue 1, Pages 125-130Publisher
AMER NUCLEAR SOC
DOI: 10.13182/FST13-772
Keywords
plasma-facing material; W/Cu divertor components; nondestructive testing
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11105180, 11205198, 11305213]
- National Magnetic Confinement Fusion Science Program [2011GB110003, 2013GB105001, 2013GB105002]
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Recently, the EAST W/Cu divertor components, including the ITER-like monoblock W/Cu units and flat-type W/Cu units, have been developed by Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) in collaboration with Advanced Technology and Materials Co., Ltd. (AT&M). To detect the bonding quality in these multiple layer geometry W/Cu plasma-facing components (PFCs) at each step of their manufacture, special nondestructive testing techniques have been researched and developed. For monoblock W/Cu PFCs, the bonding at both W-Cu and Cu-CuCrZr interfaces was qualified by spiral ultrasonic testing (UT) with a focus probe, which was inserted into the CuCrZr tube with a flexible driving tube. Artificial defects with defined size have been measured by UT and compared with the results of high heat flux testing (HHFT). The HHFT demonstrated that the monoblock W/Cu mock-up qualified by this UT has withstood 1000 cycles of heat load at 10 MW/m(2). The bonding quality of flat-type W/Cu mock-ups has also been inspected by the usual water-gap UT. The results from HHFT at 5 MW/m2 demonstrated that the present UT was unreliable for the quality control of the fiat-type W/Cu PFCs.
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