Triton burn-up neutron emission in JET low current plasmas

• The 14 MeV neutron emission from JET deuterium discharges is analysed on the basis of the information on all neutron diagnostics available on JET. This emission is due to the d + t → α + n reaction, mainly, the triton burn-up process, and is used to determine the fast triton confinement. A simplified model for triton burn-up neutron emission has been used and provides an adequate description of the 14 MeV emission. First orbit triton losses are found to amount to 50%, 20% and 10% at Ip = 1 MA, 2 MA and 3 MA, respectively. Neutron emission spectroscopy measurements with the magnetic proton recoil neutron spectrometer have detected a contribution to the 14 MeV emission due to residual tritium. For the selected (low impurity) discharges analysed in this paper 15% of the 14 MeV emission comes from the residual tritium reactions. It is also found that the residual tritium concentration tends to increase with increasing impurity content.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences (hsv//eng)

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Fysik

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