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IR system to monitor JET fusion reactor

A Cedip Infrared Systems product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Sep 22, 2005

The Joint European Torus research group has placed an order with Cedip Infrared Systems to supply a system for monitoring the temperature of components inside its Tokamak Fusion reactor.

The Joint European Torus (JET) research group, based in Abingdon, UK, has placed an order with Cedip Infrared Systems to supply an IR thermography system for monitoring the temperature of components inside its Tokamak Fusion reactor.

Based on Cedip's Emerald camera technology, operating in the 3-5 micrometre region, the IR thermography system will monitor the plasma temperature inside the reactor through a set of IR endoscopes.

Installed inside the reactor facility, an area inaccessible during time of operation, the camera will be integrated with the main data processing system of the JET Tokamak for the setting of parameters, synchronising acquisition and gathering of data.

Cedip's 32bit Altair software will be used to remotely control the camera via fibre optics as well as transfer and store acquired data.

Benefiting from the experience of IR thermography installations in nuclear fusion research facilities at the Atomic Energy Commission (Cadarache, France), Cedip will supply a specially adapted version of the Emerald camera.

The camera system will be assembled into a specially designed housing to protect it against the intense magnetic field generated by the reactors superconducting magnetic coils.

A further benefit of the supplied IR thermography system will be its ability to measure plasma temperature from 100 to 2000C, within a single range, while operating at 200 images/second in full frame mode.

JET is one of the world's largest nuclear fusion research facilities.

Its unique features are allowing scientists to investigate the potential of fusion as a safe, clean and virtually limitless energy source for future generations.

JET is run as a collaboration between all European fusion organisations and with the participation of scientists from around the globe.

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