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iter newsline 08 Dec, 2008 - #61
A toast to Mister Superconductor
-Sabina Griffith		 << return to Newsline #61
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Not part of the Procurement Arrangement but excellent results are always worth a toast: the ITER Magnets Division and colleagues raising their glasses to Alexander Shikov, Vice-Director of the Bochwar Institute in Moscow. (Click to view larger version...)
Not part of the Procurement Arrangement but excellent results are always worth a toast: the ITER Magnets Division and colleagues raising their glasses to Alexander Shikov, Vice-Director of the Bochwar Institute in Moscow.
Last week, the heads of the ITER Magnets Division, Neil Mitchell and Arnaud Devred, together with Deputy Director General Gary Johnson and colleagues that have turned friends from other departments and the European Domestic Agency took the chance to raise their champagne glasses to Dr. Alexander Shikov, Vice-Director of the Bochwar Institute in Moscow and the mastermind behind the outstanding efforts invested by Russia in the development of the ITER superconductors.

The Bochwar Institute is building on more than 40 years of experience on manufacturing superconductors made of niobium-titanium and niobium-tin. The first in the world superconductiing magnet systems of the Tokamaks T-7 and T-15 were fabricated out of these developed superconducting strands.

The production of the conductors for ITER's Poloidal (PF) and Toroidal (TF) Magnets is the biggest ever procurement for the Bochwar Institute with 120 tons of Niobium-Titanium for the PF conductors and 100 tons of Niobium-3-tin for the TF system to be produced at the "Chepetsky Mechanical Plant". This totals to about one fifth of the total amount needed for the construction of the ITER magnet system.

The latest testing of the developed in the Bochvar Institute and Cable Institute Niobium-Titanium and Niobium-3-tin conductors for ITER have confirmed their highest quality and the soundness of the ITER TF and PF Conductors design.

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