Characteristic of a pdCu membrane as atomic hydrogen probe for QUEST

Nuclear Materials and Energy

Masayuki Onaka¹  Taishi Kobayashi¹  Ikuji Takagi¹  Takayuki Sasaki¹  Arseniy Kuzmin²  Hideki Zushi² 

[1]Department of Nuclear Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto daigaku-Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8540, Japan

[2]RIAM, Kyushu University, 6-1 Kasugakoen, Kasuga, Fukuoka, 816-8580, Japan

关键词: Palladium alloy;    Permeation;    Hydrogen;    Nuclear reaction analysis;    Plasma-wall interaction;    Diffusion;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.nme.2016.09.001

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

A permeation probe is a useful device for detecting the atomic hydrogen flux to plasma-facing walls. Recently, we developed a new type of probe using 60Pd-40Cu alloy (PdCu) as the permeation material. The deuterium behaviors in PdCu samples were investigated using nuclear reaction analysis (NRA) and permeation observations, and the diffusion coefficient and recombination coefficients were determined from these observations. It was found that the sensitivity of a 0.02-mm-thick probe was as high as 0.5 below 473K and was independent of the incident flux. The response time at 473K was 0.41s and 1.3s under an incident flux of 1020m−2s−1 and 1019m−2s−1, respectively. Thus, we concluded that the new PdCu probe can effectively detect the incident atomic hydrogen with high sensitivity and a suitable response time.

【 授权许可】

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