20.06.2006, 14:57 2586

Tokamak be put into operation in 2008

Almaty. June 20. Kazakhstan Today – It is expected to put into operation Kazakhstan thermonuclear Tokamak device (Toroidal Chamber with Magnetic Coils) in 2008. The General Director of National Nuclear Center of Kazakhstan Kayrat Kadyrzhanov informed today during the briefing, the agency reports.

"The device is being manufactured in St.Petersburg Scientific Research Institute. According to the plan, manufacturing will be completed by the end of 2007. In 2008 assembling will start in Kurchatov," the director of the National Nuclear Center explained.

Tokamak - experimental thermonuclear device for researches and tests of materials in power loading mode. Assembly of the experimental complex Tokamak will be carried out in the National Nuclear center in Kurchatov on the territory of the former Semipalatinsk proving ground within the works stipulated by the government of Kazakhstan on conversion.

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