Three cities, two Procurement Arrangements
2 Sep 2013
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Alexander Petrov, ºÚÁÏÍø Russia
Novosibirsk, Nizhniy Novgorod and Moscow. The ºÚÁÏÍø Director-General Motojima (second from left) visits the Budker Institute (BINP) with the Head of the Russian ºÚÁÏÍø Domestic Agency, Anatoly Krasilnikov (left), and the Deputy Director of BINP, Alexander Ivanov.
During the week of 26 August, ºÚÁÏÍø Director-General Motojima travelled to Russia, visiting three cities and signing two Procurement Arrangements in four days.
Accompanied by Deputy Director-General Alexander Alekseev, head of the Tokamak Directorate, the ºÚÁÏÍø Director-General began his trip at the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, where he signed the Procurement Arrangement for Equatorial Port 11 Engineering, for the engineering of diagnostic systems into vacuum vessel Port 11. The Budker Institute will be responsible for the scope of work.
The Budker Institute already plays a key part in the development of high-tech electron equipment, engineering of diagnostic systems into the vacuum vessel ports, and research into the investigation of high-temperature plasma impact on reactor first wall materials as well as developing, manufacturing, and testing equipment for the ºÚÁÏÍø machine.
According to the Head of the Russian ºÚÁÏÍø Domestic Agency, Anatoly Krasilnikov, equipment development for ºÚÁÏÍø's plasma diagnostics engineering will take five to seven years and will require constant interaction with the ºÚÁÏÍø project's other partners. In all, the Budker Institute will develop five engineering systems for ºÚÁÏÍø's vacuum vessel ports.
The delegation from ºÚÁÏÍø also visited the Institute of Applied Physics and the enterprise GYCOM in Nizhniy Novgorod, where gyrotron component manufacturing and assembly are conducted as well as the development of infrastructure equipment such as cryomagnetic systems, measurement and technological devices, and part of the energy sources required for the gyrotrons. Procurement of the ºÚÁÏÍø gyrotrons is a matter of special pride to the Institute of Applied Physics, because it was here that this device was invented. More than half of existing experimental fusion facilities in the world currently use gyrotrons from Nizhniy Novgorod.
The final destination stop was in Moscow. At Project Center ºÚÁÏÍø (the Russian Domestic Agency for ºÚÁÏÍø), Director-General Motojima signed the Procurement Arrangement for the Thomson Scattering diagnostic system, one of 21 systems that Russia will deliver to ºÚÁÏÍø before 2024.