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After South Korea's KSTAR, evopro will be designing the control system for another physics experiment.

The project – which just concluded successfully – will be a required reference to participate in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) program which will have a projected 30 year lifetime. The fusion department of the Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, contacted evopro after learning about the South Korean KSTAR contract. The Institute asked for 4 engineers to integrate their self-designed BES plasma diagnostics device into the EPICS environment. The development and deployment, which was based on National Instruments (NI) technology, was the first major project for the company group in the world of “Big Physics”. The  delivery of the plasma diagnostics device's entire system controller took place from January to August of 2013.

With this 8 month long project evopro has entered the effort to create a long-term solution to humanity's energy problems, and it also took a significant step in becoming an NI Alliance Partner. As a follow-up to this project evopro Innovation is creating and integrating a similar control system at China's EAST tokamak, also under contract by the Wigner Research Centre.