• DocumentCode
    2729913
  • Title

    Mean time between failures (MTBF) and availability of the gyrotron system used on the microwave tokamak experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Author

    Ferguson, S.W. ; Jackson, M.C. ; Seilhymer, D.B.

  • Author_Institution
    Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., CA, USA
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1993
  • fDate
    11-15 Oct 1993
  • Firstpage
    1115
  • Abstract
    S.W. Ferguson, D.B. Seilhymer, M. Jackson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore California 94550. This paper presents an analysis of the mean time between failures (MTBF) and availability history of the Varian VGT8140, 400 kWatt, 140 GHz gyrotron that was operated on the Microwave Tokamak Experiment (MTX) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
  • Keywords
    CAMAC; Tokamak devices; fusion reactors; gyrotrons; nuclear engineering computing; plasma radiofrequency heating; 140 GHz; 400 kW; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; MTBF; MTX; Microwave Tokamak Experiment; Varian VGT8140 400 kWatt 140 GHz gyrotron; gyrotron system; mean time between failures; Anodes; Availability; Cathodes; Condition monitoring; Cooling; Failure analysis; Gyrotrons; Laboratories; Optical transmitters; Tokamaks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Fusion Engineering, 1993., 15th IEEE/NPSS Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Hyannis, MA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-1412-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/FUSION.1993.518519
  • Filename
    518519