Non-destructive testing specialists at Russia’s Tomsk Polytechnic Institute (TPU) is to develop methods for checking the reliability of seams on components of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) reactor. The specialists will develop methods and programmes for testing welded joints using ultrasound on important elements of the ITER fusion reactor, under construction in France.
The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INP SB RAS) is developing a number of devices to diagnose plasma parameters in the reactor. The components of these devices are welded and the quality and reliability of the seams need to be highly accurate. TPU specialists will develop methods to control their quality.
TPU is to present its methods and programmes for ultrasonic testing in November 2020.
