The TEC remote control room project at TEXTOR

Three institutes in northwestern Europe have started a collaboration in nuclear fusion research under the Trilateral Euregio Cluster (TEC) agreement to exploit jointly the TEXTOR-94 tokamak at Julich. The program aims to obtain coherent description of transport in the plasma as a whole and develop means to control this transport. To maintain a strong and permanent visibility on the national level, a project called TECNET was launch to realize remote control rooms equal in functionality to the local control room at Julich. TECNET makes possible online experimental research programs on TEXTOR from remote sites, while making use of local, on-site operators and consultation of local/remote experts.