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After months of troubleshooting, SRS system gets a new component
Workers at the Savannah River Site have recently completed the replacement of a piece of equipment that the Department of Energy said in a July 31 press release is “essential for operations in the site’s H Canyon chemical separations capable facility.”
Sungwoo Kim, Suk-Ho Hong, Kwang Pyo Kim, Dong Su Lee, Woong Chae Kim, Kap-Rae Park
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 1 | July 2011 | Pages 98-101
doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12413
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The major impurity among gas species in the 2009 KSTAR campaign is water, up to 6.91 % of total pressure in the vacuum vessel. Various wall conditioning methods such as GDC, ICWC, and boronization are conducted to reduce water impurity which affects the plasma initiation. GDCs reduce water pressure to 1 × 10-9 mbar while several minutes of inter-shot ICWCs suppress water pressure around 3 × 10-9 mbar. Compared with the results from the KSTAR boronization, routinely performed inter-shot ICWCs would have similar effect as boronization for water removal from the vacuum vessel.