ITER project discussed on The Young Scientists Congress in Sochi

The panel discussion “ITER project: on the way to energy of future” took place on the very first day of The Young Scientists Congress in Sirius 1 on the 1st of December. Speakers of the ITER project center shared with young scientists, post graduates and students from all over the country their current achievements in project implementation, as well as evolution perspectives of the national thermonuclear program.


The experts of the ITER-center headed by the Director of the Institute Anatoly Krasilnikov shared with the audience the news of the state corporation “Rosatom” about the world’s most complex scientific and experimental facility, and why it is that much important to develop domestic scientific capacities for controlled thermonuclear fusion, the achievements reached in automation and digitalization related with the latter, as well as on ITER-inspired unprecedented cooperation of lead research institutes and companies in Russia.


The presentations of speakers became the object of numerous questions from the attendees of the panel discussions. First of all, young Russian scientists that attended the event were rather interested in perspectives of domestic know-hows in plasma physics and CTS, applicability of knowledge obtained in high educational institutions and results of the ITER project. In the end of the panel discussion everyone interested could address experts in less formal atmosphere.


All attendees of the ITER project center this interest demonstrated by the audience, numerous questions and proposals manifest the utter relevance of controlled thermonuclear fusion in Russia confirmed both by proactive participation of our country in the ITER international project and implementation of internal projects within the framework of the comprehensive program “Engineering, technologies and scientific research in the industry of nuclear energy in the Russian Federation”.


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rosatom Наука и инновации, 05.12.22

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