A new research facility that will enable Chinese scientists to carry out vital experiments in the development of a nuclear fusion reactor – or so-called artificial sun – is set to open later this year, according to the company behind the project. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), currently under construction in southern France, is designed to operate at up to 150 million degrees. The development of the Sichuan facility is another step forward in the nation’s push to build the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor by 2021, CNNC said. New facilities, like the HL-2M, would give researchers more scope to study and find solutions to such issues, Gao said. The ITER is the world’s largest and costliest international scientific collaboration project, with a price tag of about €20bil (RM93.7bil).

Source: The Star June 07, 2019 05:26 UTC