The Spherical Tokamak MEDUSA for Mexico

The former spherical tokamak MEDUSA (Madison EDUcation Small Aspect.ratio tokamak, R $<$ 0.14m, a $<$ 0.10m, B$_{T}<$ 0.5T, I$_{p}<$ 40kA, 3ms pulse) is currently being recomissioned at the Universidad Aut\'{o}noma de Nuevo Le\'{o}n, Mexico, as part of an agreement between the Faculties of Mech.-Elect. Eng. and Phy. Sci.-Maths. The main objective for having MEDUSA is to train students in plasma physics {\&} technical related issues, aiming a full design of a medium size device (e.g. Tokamak-T [1]). Details of technical modifications and a preliminary scientific programme will be presented. MEDUSA-MX will also benefit any developments in the existing Mexican Fusion Network. Strong liaison within national and international plasma physics communities is expected. New activities on plasma {\&} engineering modeling are expected to be developed in parallel by using the existing facilities such as a multi-platform computer (Silicon Graphics Altix XE250, 128G RAM, 3.7TB HD, 2.7GHz, quad-core processor), ancillary graph system (NVIDIA Quadro FE 2000/1GB GDDR-5 PCI X16 128, 3.2GHz), and COMSOL Multiphysics-Solid Works programs.\\[0pt] [1] M.Salvador et al., Fus. Energy Conf., S. Korea, 2010, FTP/P6-36