The geography of our specialists' presence is expanding: Stepan Krat, Senior Researcher at the MEPhI Department of Plasma Physics, paid a working visit to the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon (UANL) in Mexico.

This is one of the largest universities in the country: in total, more than 220 thousand students study here! And only at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering (FIME), where the work took place, 20,000 students gnaw the granite of science.

Cooperation with Mexican colleagues has strong roots. Gennady Vorobyov, the chief designer of the MYTHIST.0 training tokamak, stood at its origins. It was he who began active cooperation with the university back in 2019.

Currently, the general scientific management of the work is carried out by Doctor of Physico-mathematical Sciences, Professor of Department No. 21 Alexander Melnikov.

The Mexican project is under active technical development. Creating a tokamak is a slow and time — consuming process that requires precise calculations. During the trip, Stepan conducted an audit of the ongoing work and discussed with colleagues engineering solutions for assembly of nodes. The main task now is to use the experience of MEPhI to help partners go from "iron" to the first plasma as efficiently as possible.

The work is carried out under a grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.