Deposition of fuel pellets injected into tokamak plasmas

Pellet injection has been used on tokamak devices in a number of experiment s to provide plasma fueling and density profile control. The mass depositio n of these fuel pellets, defined as the change in density profile caused by the pellet, has been found to show an outward displacement of the ablated material from that expected by mapping the theoretical ablation rate onto t he flux surfaces. This suggests that fast transport of the pellet ablatant occurs during the now along field lines that may be driven by VB effects. A comparison of the deposition of pellets from different machines shows simi lar behavior. Initial results from alternative injection locations designed to take advantage of the outward ablatant drift is presented.