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Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Ivica Šmid, Charles D. Croessmann, Robert D. Watson, Jochen Linke, Antonino Cardella, Harald Bolt, Nikolaus Reheis, Erich Kny
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 4 | July 1991 | Pages 2035-2040
Technical Paper | Carbon Material Special | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29337
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The divertor of a near-term fusion device has to withstand high heat fluxes, heat shocks, and erosion caused by the plasma. Furthermore, it has to be maintainable through remote techniques. Above all, a good heat removal capability across the interface (low-Z armor/heat sink) plus overall integrity after many operational cycles are needed. To meet all these requirements, an active metal brazing technique is applied to bond graphite and carbon-fiber composite materials to a heat sink consisting of a Mo-41Re coolant tube through a TZM body. Plain brazed graphite and TZM tiles are tested for their fusion-relevant properties. The interfaces appear undamaged after thermal cycling when the melting point of the braze joint is not exceeded and when the graphite armor is >4 mm thick. High heat flux tests are performed on three actively cooled divertor targets. The braze joints show no sign of failure after exposure to thermal loads ∼25% higher than the design value surface heat flux of 10 MW/m2.