Icy Chemical Cocktail at Work (IMAGE)
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Figure 2: Infrared images of disruption heat loads on the first wall of DIII-D tokamak, when mitigated by pellets composed of (a) pure deuterium (b) mixture of deuterium and neon and (c) pure neon. Bright spots indicate high wall temperature. Primary heat loads occur where magnetic field lines intersect the wall, near bottom right of each image (hot spot indicated by arrow).
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Images courtesy of C.J. Lasnier, LLNL.
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