2 papers
physics.plasm-ph2026
Spacecraft heat shield study in the DIII-D tokamak
Dmitri M. Orlov, Evdokiya G. Kostadinova, Igor Bykov +33
We report a new experimental platform developed at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility to investigate carbon ablation and spallation under extreme heat fluxes relevant to fusion pl…
physics.plasm-ph2026
First divertor exposure experiments of a renewable boron pebble aggregate in DIII-D
Erick Martinez-Loran, Angelica Ottaviano, Santhosh T. A. Kumar +21
Boron pebble aggregate was tested for the first time as a high-heat-flux granular plasma-facing material in a tokamak divertor. Exposures of up to $q_{\parallel} = \SI{80}{\MW\per\…