@inproceedings{655183eef5e34609b60bc1544d0e9d0a,
title = "Design of a tritium pellet injector for TFTR",
abstract = "The TFTR (Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor) tritium pellet injector (TPI) is designed to provide a tritium pellet fueling capability with pellet speeds in the 1-3-km/s-range for the TFTR D-T phase. The existing TFTR deuterium pellet injector is being modified at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to provide a four-shot, tritium-compatible, pipe-gun configuration with three upgraded single-stage pneumatic guns and a two-stage light gas gun driver. The pipe gun concept has been qualified for tritium operation by the tritium proof-of-principle injector experiments conducted on the Tritium Systems Test Assembly at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In these experiments, tritium and D-T pellets were accelerated to speeds near 1.5 km/s. The TPI is being designed for pellet sizes in the range from 3.43 to 4.0 mm in diameter in arbitrarily programmable firing sequences at speeds up to approximately 1.5 km/s for the three single-stage drivers and 2.5 to 3 km/s for the two-stage driver. Injector operation will be controlled by a programmable logic controller.",
author = "Milora, {S. L.} and Gouge, {M. J.} and Fisher, {P. W.} and Combs, {S. K.} and Cole, {M. J.} and Wysor, {R. B.} and Fehling, {D. T.} and Foust, {C. R.} and Baylor, {L. R.} and Schmidt, {G. L.} and Barnes, {G. W.} and Persing, {R. G.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 1991 IEEE.; 14th IEEE/NPSS Symposium Fusion Engineering, FUSION 1991 ; Conference date: 30-09-1991 Through 03-10-1991",
year = "1991",
doi = "10.1109/FUSION.1991.218747",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - Symposium on Fusion Engineering",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "716--720",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 14th IEEE/NPSS Symposium Fusion Engineering, FUSION 1991",
}