China tested nuclear fusion reactors

The Plasma Physics Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) will put the next-generation experimental nuclear fusion reactor to be tested in July or August 2006.

The Tokamak nuclear fusion reactor, the new generation of China, will be tested in July or August 2006. If successful, this is the first experimental nuclear fusion reactor in the world to be put into operation.

ToKamak experimental nuclear fusion reactor.

Comments by Mr. Li Jiangang Plasma Physics Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and also the project leader of this project are considered an "important step" for China to exploit.

With an investment of 165 million yuan (approximately US $ 20 million) for this project.

Plasma capture from Video.

In addition, according to Mr. Li, this project could produce plasma gas (a gas that has the same number of negative and positive particles as the sun and most stars) at temperatures of 50 to 100 million degrees. C and exist for 1,000 consecutive seconds.

Previously, in the mid-1980s, the United States and the Russian Federation carried out a large project. This project worth 10 billion euros (equivalent to more than $ 12 billion) is called an international experimental thermonuclear reactor (ITER) and China participated in this project in 2003.

By using deuterium in seawater as reactive fuel, a reactor with 100 million degrees Celsius will generate 500 megawatts of electricity.

All commercial nuclear reactors in the world are nuclear fission reactors, as opposed to nuclear fusion and must use non-recyclable minerals such as uranium and pluton. The reactor's waste is radioactive while the fusion reactor is environmentally friendly.

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