Svetlana Kamaeva: “Russian Technologies for Export”

... substitution” simply because Russians today are the world pioneers in the magnetic technology of non-destructive testing. It took us about four months’ work under extremely hard conditions to examine this pipeline. As a result, Russian technology (namely, magnetic tomography) has confirmed how unique it really is in solving this very tough problem. For the first time in history, micro-cracks were remotely detected at the welded field joints of an underground facility. This defect was the cause of the accident ...