Glossary
Materials and Plasma Facing Components for Thermonuclear Fusion Applications
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Glossary
Materials and Plasma Facing Components for Thermonuclear Fusion Applications

Authors : Marianne RICHOU, Emmanuelle TSITRONE, Marc MISSIRLIAN, Philippe MAGAUD

Publication date: December 10, 2020, Review date: March 24, 2022 | Lire en français

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7. Glossary

Barn

A unit of area used in physics to express cross-sectional areas (1 b = 10, –,24, cm 2 )

Plasma-facing component

Components that interface with the plasma, ensuring heat removal while being compatible with the generation of high-performance fusion plasma

Design of plasma-facing components;

In this article, the concepts of plasma-facing components are "inertial," "semi-inertial," and actively cooled.

Divertor; divertor

A component that absorbs most of the heat and particle flux from the plasma.

Dpa

Displacement per atom

Component Geometry in Plasma...

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