Profotec has developed prototypes of fiber-optic current sensors for the ITER project

2022: Development of Fiber Optic Current Sensors for the ITER Project

The portfolio company Rusnano - Profotec has implemented a contract within the framework of a strategic partnership with the Efremov NIIEFA. Rusnano reported this on December 6, 2022. Engineers have developed prototypes of fiber-optic current sensors for the ITER project. Together with Profotec, NIIEFA began their comprehensive tests, including confirmation of stable operation under conditions of action of external permanent magnetic fields simulating scattering fields of magnetic plasma retention systems.

ITER is an experimental thermonuclear reactor based on the concept of tokamak and one of the examples of international cooperation in the field of nuclear development. power engineering specialists The goal of the megascience project is to demonstrate the possibility of controlled fusion with combustion time and industrial scale power. They are working together to solve this problem, countries EU as well as,,, Russia, and USA. India China South Korea Japan

The successful implementation of the contract with NIIEFA will allow Profotec to master new competencies and gain a foothold in the emerging international market for thermonuclear technologies.

The organization responsible for fulfilling the obligations of the Russian side in the project has been determined by Rosatom. The work is coordinated by the Private Institution "ITER Project Center." The lead performer of technical solutions lying in the area of ​ ​ responsibility of the Russian Federation in the ITER project is the NIIEFA - the scientific, design and production center of the Russian Federation for the creation of electrophysical installations and complexes for solving scientific and applied problems in the field of plasma physics, atomic and nuclear physics, particle physics, healthcare, radiation and energy technologies, introscopy.