Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4921080 | Fusion Engineering and Design | 2017 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Thermal desorption of deuterium in tungsten pre-irradiated with the inert gas (helium, neon, argon) is modelled by TMAP (Tritium Migration & Analysis Program). Each TMAP model incorporates three activation energies linked with three types of traps respectively. First-principles method is performed to calculate the activation energies of deuterium detrapping from different kinds of defects. By comparing the activation energies modelled in TMAP with that obtained from first-principles method, the types of traps are determined. The pre-irradiation of helium can suppress the deuterium retention in vacancy clusters. Neon and argon pre-irradiation suppresses deuterium retention in mono-vacancies due to decreasing the number of mono-vacancies caused by the occupation of the inert gas atoms into mono-vacancies. The pre-irradiation of neon can facilitate deuterium retention in vacancy clusters through generating vacancy clusters during the injection process. Argon pre-irradiation facilitates deuterium retention mainly through generating voids, which are of a larger scale than vacancy clusters and can serve as effective traps.
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Authors
Shi-Yao Qin, Shuo Jin, Da-Ren Zou, Long Cheng, Xiao-Lin Shu, Qing Hou, Guang-Hong Lu,