On November 18, the opening of the Center for Remote Participation (CRP), one of the communication nodes of the Unified information space for fusion research created by Rosatom, took place at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, the basic university of the Rosatom State Corporation. The tokamak "MEPHIST-0" was also connected to the Unified information space. The event was held with the participation of Alexey Likhachev, Director General of ROSATOM.
The event began with an inspection of the tokamak, as well as its control room, which now, as Stepan Krat, senior researcher at the Institute of Laser and Plasma Technologies at the MEPhI National Research University, explained to the guests, can also be used to conduct experiments at other thermonuclear installations of Rosatom and the Russian Academy of Sciences.
After inspecting the tokamak, Alexey Likhachev and the rector of the MEPhI National Research University, Vladimir Shevchenko, conducted the official launch of the tokamak "MEPHIST-0" through the CRP of the Unified Information Space. The first remote pulse of a training tokamak was observed in real time by scientists from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and even from France. Colleagues have already received the results of the experiment and can work with them. In the same way, Russian scientists at the ITER tokamak will participate in the experiments, and students will have the opportunity to gain important experience.
Alexey Likhachev noted that the creation of a tokamak at MEPhI has become one of the elements of the federal project "Thermonuclear and Plasma Technologies" implemented by ROSATOM. The head of ROSATOM thanked his colleagues who work together in the framework of a single ITER project throughout the vast expanse of Eurasia. He added that Russia remains one of the key participants in the project. "The importance of today’s event – the launch of the tokamak – lies in the fact that MEPhI students have already had the opportunity from the first year to participate not in words, but in deeds in the implementation of the largest project on a planetary scale," he noted.
