The Institute of Plasma Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) and Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP, Russian Academy of Science) signed an Agreement for Scientific and Technical Cooperation in the Field of Development of Steady State Neutral Beams based on Positive Ions for Fusion Research on October 29, 2010.
Prof Jiangang Li, director of ASIPP and Prof Alexandr Ivanov, deputy director of BINP signed the agreement with the witness of scientists from two institutes and FRC/Texas University.
According to the agreement, two institutes will work jointly on the development of an RF plasma driver operating in steady state, a power supply for RF plasma driver, a plasma chamber, advanced power supplies, grids and so on. At the same time, the two sides will exchange results obtained during research in the field covered by the agreement in the form of reports, publications, and working documents, exchange scientists for the purpose of joint research, issue joint publication and conference presentations and train graduate students.
The BINP delegation also visited EAST and HT-7 tokamaks and NBI lab. The scientists from two sides exchanged their research results and shared NBI R&D ideas, had a deep discussion on future bilateral cooperation.
BINP was founded in 1958 as a part of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences; it’s the largest institute of Russian Academy of Sciences. Its founder was the prominent Soviet Physicist Andrei Mikhailovich Budker (1918-1977).
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