TPU engineers have fully delivered hatches and other equipment for four of the six SKIF Shared Resource Center stations: "Microfocus", "Structural Diagnostics", "Electronic Structure", and "Basic Methods of Synchrotron Diagnostics for Educational, Research, and Innovation Activities of Students". This is more than 90% of the TPU's declared work for the creation of this facility.
Hatches are restrictive structures, a kind of "houses" that ensure the radiation safety of scientists during experiments. They act as the skeleton of the station, on which all engineering networks are "hung" – pipeline networks for water cooling, gas supply, cable networks for power supply, signaling and security systems, ventilation and air conditioning system ducts, and much more. From the end of September, TPU scientists, together with partners, will begin the technical delivery of this scientific equipment.
The total weight of all currently delivered restrictive structures, together with attachments, reaches 100 tons. The size of each hatch varies and can reach up to 18 meters in length, up to 4.5 meters in height, and up to 5 meters in depth. After the technical acceptance of the equipment by the expert commission, it will be packed and placed in warranty storage at TPU until the SKIF buildings are put into operation.
SKIF Shared Resource Center
A Russian accelerator with a main electron storage ring and radiation source diameter of 240 meters, which currently has no global analogues. In it, particles will move in a ring in a vacuum at almost the speed of light, and electromagnets will give them energy and set the trajectory.
The scientific complex of the SKIF Shared Resource Center is a base of 34 buildings and structures under construction, engineering and technological equipment. The following will be carried out there:
- research with bright and intense beams of X-ray radiation in the fields of chemistry, physics, materials science, biology, geology, humanities;
- work for the needs of defense and security of Russia — in foreign practices, such installations are not used for defense industry tasks;
- developments to improve the health of Russians and create new dosage forms.
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