Overview
- Comprises a modern primer on plasma–materials interactions from the materials points of view
- Is relevant to ITER, whose assembly started in 2020
- Addresses the importance of power load by radiation and particles in plasma–materials interactions
- Includes tritium fuel in plasma materials interaction
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Plasma Science and Technology (SSPST)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Fusion Reactor and Plasma Material Interactions
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Basic Processes in PMI
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PMI, Observations in Present Large Tokamaks and Prospects in a Reactor
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is a primer on the interplay between plasma and materials in a fusion reactor, so-called plasma–materials interactions (PMIs), highlighting materials and their influence on plasma through PMI. It aims to demonstrate that a plasma-facing surface (PFS) responds actively to fusion plasma and that the clarifying nature of PFS is indispensable to understanding the influence of PFS on plasma. It describes the modern insight into PMI, namely, relevant feedback to plasma performance from plasma-facing material (PFM) on changes in a material surface by plasma power load by radiation and particles, contrary to a conventional view that unilateral influence from plasma on PFM is dominant in PMI.
There are many books and reviews on PMI in the context of plasma physics, that is, how plasma or plasma confinement works in PMI. By contrast, this book features a materials aspect in PMI focusing on changes caused by heat and particle load from plasma: how PFMs are changed by plasma exposure and then, accordingly, how the changed PFM interacts with plasma.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Tetsuo Tanabe is a special-appointment professor at the Research Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (ReCAP), Osaka City University. His work is mainly concerned with nuclear materials, fusion engineering, and tritium science. He received his Doctor of Engineering from Osaka University in 1977. He has been a professor at Nagoya University and Kyushu University, and has served in his current position since 2017. He is now an emeritus professor at Nagoya University and Kyushu University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plasma-Material Interactions in a Controlled Fusion Reactor
Authors: Tetsuo Tanabe
Series Title: Springer Series in Plasma Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0328-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0327-3Published: 09 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0330-3Published: 09 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-0328-0Published: 08 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2511-2007
Series E-ISSN: 2511-2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 207
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 78 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nuclear Fusion, Energy Materials, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Plasma Physics, Applied and Technical Physics