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SST-1 (steady state superconducting tokamak) is a plasma confinement experimental device in the Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), an autonomous research institute under Department of Atomic Energy, India. It belongs to a new generation of tokamaks with the major objective being steady state operation of an advanced configuration ('D' Shaped) plasma. It has been designed as a medium-sized tokamak with superconducting magnets. The SST-1 project will increase India's stronghold in a selected group of countries who are capable of conceptualizing and making a fully functional fusion based reactor device. Next stage of the SST-1 mission, the SST-2, dubbed as 'DEMO', has already been initiated. The SST-1 System is housed in Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar. The integration of the system has been completed as of 15 January 2012, four months ahead of revised schedule. The first plasma shots are expected by June 2012. The SST-1 mission has been chaired by eminent Indian plasma physicists like Prof. Y.C. Saxena, Dr. Chenna Reddy, and is headed by Dr. Subrata Pradhan. ==History== The first talks about SST Mission started in 1994. The technical details and mechanical drawings of the system were finalized in 2001. The machine was fabricated by 2005, even before China's EAST tokamak, which has an almost similar configuration and was started almost parallel to the SST-1 project (1998–2003). Godrej-Boyce Pvt. Ltd. played a crucial role in fabrication of the SST-1 coils. The assembly of SST-1 convinced the top brass of Indian bureaucracy to give a green flag to the claim of Indian physicists to join the ITER program (Info Box ). On 17 August 2005, PM Sayeed, then India's power minister informed the Rajya Sabha about India's claim to join ITER. A team from ITER, France visited the SST-1 mission control housed in Institute for Plasma Research to see the advances Indian scientists had made. Finally on 6 December 2005, India was officially accepted as a full partner of the ITER project. 〔http://www.iter-india.org/iter-india.php〕 To improve and modify some of the components, the SST-1 machine was subsequently disassembled. The improved version of the machine was completely assembled by January 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SST-1 (tokamak)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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