{"id":11989,"date":"2017-07-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vo.afonico-test.ru\/novosti-otrasli\/kazakhstan-tokamak-approaches-new-phase\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:05:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:05:29","slug":"kazakhstan-tokamak-approaches-new-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/novosti-otrasli\/kazakhstan-tokamak-approaches-new-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan Tokamak approaches new phase"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>The Kazakhstan Tokamak for Material testing, or KTM, will undergo \u201creal-mode\u201d testing from November, according to the draft of an updated research program approved last week by the Commission of CIS Member States on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom announced the approval yesterday.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The world\u2019s biggest tokamak is Iter\u00a0\u2014 a magnetic fusion device that 35\u00a0nations are collaborating to build in order to prove the feasibility of the fusion of hydrogen nuclei as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy. Iter is expected to produce first plasma in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Iter organisation describes the KTM as a rather small, spherical machine with a vacuum vessel volume of 12.3\u00a0cubic metres. That compares with Iter\u2019s 840\u00a0cu m.<\/p>\n<p>Magnetic fields are provided by a central solenoid and an array of 20\u00a0toroidal field coils and 18\u00a0poloidal field coils. Poloidal and toroidal field coils are copper; the central solenoid is wound with copper and silver alloy conductors. The divertor consists of mounted plates on a rotary table. Plates can be replaced without venting the vacuum vessel by way of the rotating and vertical movements of the table.<\/p>\n<p>Iter says this capability, along with other assembly-disassembly systems, is essential for a machine which is intended to test plasma-facing materials under powerful particle and heat flux. It enables operators to install components and take them out in a relatively short time, it says.<\/p>\n<p>KTM experienced its trial start-up\u00a0\u2014 in the city of Kurchatov, in eastern Kazakhstan\u00a0\u2014 on 5\u00a0September 2010. It underwent pilot testing last month, Rosatom said.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission agreed the updated schedule for KTM during a meeting held on 20\u00a0June during Expo 2017\u00a0in Astana, and chaired by Rosatom deputy director-general Nikolay Spassky. The event was attended by members of the Commission from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Russian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kazakhstan Tokamak for Material testing, or KTM, will undergo \u201creal-mode\u201d testing from November, according to the draft of an updated research program approved last week by the Commission of CIS Member States on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom announced the approval yesterday. The world\u2019s biggest tokamak is Iter\u00a0\u2014&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.10.5","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ru","en"],"languages":{"ru":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16209,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11989\/revisions\/16209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11989"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}