ITER – TEXTOR: taking tungsten to the limit
ITER Newsline – TEXTOR: taking tungsten to the limit
By Ralph P. Schorn | 17 February 2012
Material erosion under fusion-relevant conditions is of critical importance for all materials applied to ITER. A recent campaign at the German-based tokamak TEXTOR, jointly conducted by the Research Centre in Jülich and the Japanese University of Tohoku upon the initiative of the International Energy Agency (IEA), studied the erosion and melt behaviour of tungsten on a longer timescale.
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