The National Fusion Research Institute (NFRI), Korea, and the CEA signed a framework agreement in the field of magnetic fusion research on Friday, July 8. Both of them will benefit from the operation of their superconducting tokamak: KSTAR and WEST.
At the effective date, the two Institutes have already identified the following projects for the period 2016-2019:
– Plasma Wall Interaction (with the implementation at NFRI of the PCFFlux code developed by IRFM)
– Impurity transport (test in WEST of a prototype of the ITER vacuum ultraviolet core survey spectrometer developed by NFRI)
– Theoretical Modeling
– Lower Hybrid Current Drive (IRFM experts shall support the NFRI LHCD team)
Keeman KIM, NFRI president and Alain Becoulet, Head of IRFM signed the agreement