Fuelling the international collaboration

Members of the ITER Fuelling Section took a four-day trip to the Southwest Institute of Physics (SWIP) in Chengdu, China, where they had intensive discussions on the ongoing design task for the ITER gas injection system and the glow discharge cleaning system: Tao Jiang (SWIP), Mingxu Wang (SWIP), Bo Li (SWIP), Xiangqin Zhang (ITER China), Bob Brewster (ITER), Min Wang (ITER China), So Maruyama (ITER) and Yu Yang (ITER). SWIP will soon install the test bed for transient measurement of the ITER gas injection and an electrode prototype for the discharge cleaning. This facility will provide valuable information to verify the design of both systems.