Assessment of neutron production in neutral beam injector of TCV tokamak

Abstract

Abstract. Neutral beam (NB) injector for the TCV tokamak has been designed to produce a deuterium beam with energy 30 keV, equivalent current up to 50 A, and pulse duration 2 s. The injector operation is accompanied by generation of fast neutrons produced in deuterium-deuterium collisions via a nuclear fusion reaction D(D,n)3He. Main sources of the neutrons are a beam neutralizer and a deuterium-saturated surface of beam dump. Measurements of the neutron yields from the both sources were produced on the prototype of TCV injector in the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics. Neutron yields from neutralizer and beam dump are equal to 9.5x10 8 s −1 and 2.3x10 9 s −1 for the nominal parameters of the injector (30 kV, 50 A).