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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, December 3 (Xinhua) — The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project is a shining example of successful international cooperation that accelerates the development of science and technology, Anatoly Krasilnikov, director of the ITER Project Center (an organization of the Rosatom state corporation), told Xinhua on Tuesday.
"ITER is a wonderful example of how cooperation drives science and technology. When we started ITER, we had certain figures for the critical current density that could flow through ITER's superconducting wires. As the project progressed, this figure increased significantly. Through information exchange and optimization, through joint efforts and ideas, we reached a fundamentally new level of parameters for the current-carrying capacity of the superconductors we were developing," said A. Krasilnikov.
He praised the achievements of Chinese scientists, who managed to continuously confine high-temperature plasma in China's EAST tokamak for 1,066 seconds. "We managed to achieve such a long discharge duration at a very high electron temperature. This is a very significant achievement by Chinese scientists," said A. Krasilnikov.
According to him, the project for a new Chinese superconducting tokamak – a facility for magnetic plasma confinement – which is being built in the city of Hefei, “in two years will be the largest thermonuclear experiment in the world,” and the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) “will become a world center for thermonuclear research.”
The Director of the ITER Project Center noted that collaboration between Russian and Chinese scientists in the field of thermonuclear fusion is developing very fruitfully. The Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, located in Hefei, has already signed several bilateral cooperation agreements with leading Russian research centers, and he hopes that agreements will soon be signed between the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the state corporation Rosatom. –0–
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