Tungsten erosion in the all-metal tokamaks JET and ASDEX Upgrade

• The tungsten source in the all W outer divertor and Be main wall configuration has been quantified mainly during L-mode plasmas and compared to AUG Data both gained from local spectroscopy. Results so far show differences between AUG and JET based on impurities in the plasma changing the sputter behavior. This stresses the need for detailed analysis of the divertor impurity composition and detailed molding in the future analysis. The H-Mode examples indicate at ELM dominated sputtering and a rather low averaged sputtering yield in general. Nitrogen seeding can change the divertor conditions significantly either increasing W sputtering or suppressing it due to local cooling, JET and AUG behave similarly. All together it is clear that by having low divertor temperature or a beneficial impurity composition sputtering can be controlled and is rather low as expected in an all metal environment.

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ASDEX upgrade

Impurities in

Impurity composition

L-mode plasmas

Local cooling

Local spectroscopy

Sputtering yields

Tungsten erosion

Impurities

Plasma simulation

Tokamak devices

Tungsten

Magnetoplasma

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