Influence of plasma heat loads relevant to ITER transient events on deuterium retention in tungsten

Deuterium (D) retention in Tungsten (W) under plasma heat loads relevant to edge localized modes in ITER was experimentally investigated at the QSPA-T plasma gun facility. Samples were exposed to 1.0 ms D plasma pulses with different heat loads in the range of 0.4-3.7 MJm(-2) (heat flux factor P root t = 13.3-123 MJm(-2)s(-0.5)). A significant D retention was observed already after one pulse. Moreover, the D retention grew up continuously with increasing the power load, although the surface was melted at highest loads (above 1.4 MJ m(-2)). The D retention was higher than that in the case of stationary plasma irradiation at 600-700 K, indicating possible significant contribution of ELM's-like events to the total D retention. All stages of the experiments (irradiation, storage time and TDS) have been simulated using the TMAP 7 code.