The National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, the flagship university of the Rosatom State Corporation, hosted the opening of its Remote Participation Center, one of the communication nodes of the Unified Information Space for Thermonuclear Research created by Rosatom. The MIFIS-0 tokamak was also connected to the Unified Information Space. Rosatom’s CEO Alexey Likhachev attended the event.
The Unified Information Space for Thermonuclear Research is a unique information network that unites the country’s most important scientific centers engaged in researching controlled thermonuclear fusion. Each scientific organization connected to the unified space must create a Central Control Center that will provide network participants not only with access to the results of all scientific experiments, but also with the opportunity to participate remotely in experiments at scientific installations. This will include in the future experiments at the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in France.
Likhachev remarked that the creation of the tokamak at MEPhI has become one of the elements of the federal project implemented by Rosatom, aimed at developing controlled thermonuclear fusion and plasma technologies. Likhachev thanked his colleagues who work together throughout the vast expanse of Eurasia within the framework of the single ITER project, based in France. He further affirmed that Russia remains one of the key participants in the project. “The importance of today’s event—the launch of the tokamak—is that MEPhI students from their first year have the opportunity to participate not in words, but in deeds in the implementation of the largest project of planetary scale,” declared Likhachev.
All organizations in the country involved in thermonuclear research will be able to connect to it. Scientists from all over the country will be able to access all of their colleagues’ research and participate remotely in relevant experiments.
