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Development of a core snubber for the neutral beam injector on EAST
Cai-Chao Jiang1, Chun-Dong Hu1, Ya-Hong Xie1
1Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China.
Abstract:
A 4-MW ion source was developed for the neutral beam injector (NBI) on Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST). Breakdown nevertheless can happen during ion source conditioning and routine operations and is deleterious to the high-power ion source. To protect this ion source, a core snubber was designed to absorb the breakdown energy of the EAST-NBI ion source. A prototype core snubber was developed and tested using the ion-source test bed. The results show that with a core snubber, short-circuit currents at different high-power voltages were about one-tenth of the current without the snubber. The residual energy of the distributed capacitors had been absorbed successfully and the core snubber does protect the source from damage during breakdown. The results verified the successful development of a core snubber for the EAST-NBI.
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