NPO “GKMP” has won the tender and signed an agreement for for the international ITER project
LLC NPO GKMP Machinery & Tools Engineering Group has won the tender, and than on June 17, 2020 detailed design and development contracts were signed and pilot production of components of vacuum stands for testing the upper and equatorial port plug-in (PPTF) in 2020. State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM is identified as the party responsible for the Russian contribution to the project, and the ITER International Organization is the end user
The scope of work carried out by the GKMP will include the creation of working documentation, going through the stage of readiness for production, and also manufacturing the components of vacuum stand No. 3. After assembly and integral tests in 2021, PPTF stand No. 3 should be the first to be delivered to the ITER International Fusion Energy Organization (at The European Domestic Agency) in accordance with the ITER Detailed Schedule. General Director of NPO GKMP LLC Nikolay Inyutin noted that the requirements for the manufacture of sub-systems for a vacuum stand are very difficult, however, the creation of such systems is fully within the competence of the enterprise, and the team is considered as a sign of trust in the level of quality and reliability of the vacuum equipment.
The equatorial and upper vacuum vessel port plug-in (PPTF) stands were designed for vacuum, thermocyclic and functional testing of port plugs before their direct operation in the ITER tokamak. In total, until 2025, Domestic Agency: Project Center ITER (ITER Russia) supplies 4 vacuum test benches for testing 46 top and equatorial port plug-ins.
ITER is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject, which will be the world's largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment. It is an experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor that is being built next to the Cadarache facility in Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, in Provence, southern France.The ITER Members—China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States—are now engaged in a 35-year collaboration to build and operate the ITER experimental device, and together bring fusion to the point where a demonstration fusion reactor can be designed.This is the first large-scale project to demonstrate the feasibility of using controlled thermonuclear fusion to generate energy on an industrial scale. The launch of the reactor and the first experiments are planned for 2025.
