Pellet injectors are needed to fuel long pulse tokamak plasmas and other magnetic
confinement devices. For this purpose, an apparatus has been developed that forms 1.3 …

A new deuterium pellet injector intended for maintaining a steady-state fusion reaction in a
plasma is described. A technique for producing pellets by continuous solid deuterium …

Pellet injectors are used for ablation and refuelling experiments in plasma machines. A
centrifugal injector with direct feed at rotation frequencies of up to 500 Hz for quasi …

The pellet injection systems for the next-generation fusion devices (such as the International
Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) and future fusion reactors will have to provide …

The repeating pneumatic hydrogen pellet injector, which was developed at the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory (ORNL), has been installed and operated on the Tokamak Fusion Test …

During the last 10 to 15 years, significant progress has been made worldwide in the area of
pellet injection technology. This specialized field of research originated as a possible …

The repeating centrifuge pellet injector developed for plasma fuelling experiments at ASDEX
Upgrade was improved to give higher repetition rates. The system is now capable of …

Plasma fueling via injection of solid hydrogenic pellets has expanded the operating range
for tokamaks and stellarators to higher densities than attainable with gas puffing. Pellet …

The current conception of fueling large fusion devices is based on gas puffing and pellet
injection. A pellet injector produces, accelerates, and transports millimeter-size pellets …

A pneumatic injector for periodic injection of fuel—solid-deuterium pellets—into the plasma
of the TORE-SUPRA tokamak in a steady-state mode is described. Injection of deuterium …