CFETRChina's Experimental Artificial Sunto Generate Electricity in 2026

[cirr]

It is expected that by 2026 a bulb in CAS' Plasma Research Institute will be lit using electricity produced by CFTRE

The God of Fire - a first in human history！！

 

[That Guy]

Sounds fishy, do you have a link to the source?

 

[shuttler]

Sounds fishy, do you have a link to the source?

what fishy！We are fully capable of doing that!

We have been doing research in this area for quite some time. Check out item 9 of post # 17 and 31 of this thread below:

http://www.defence.pk/forums/china-far-east/249386-china-prepares-spend-billions-science-technology-2.html

 

[tranquilium]

Sounds fishy, do you have a link to the source?

China and US both have its own independent controlled fusion program along with the international one. The Chinese EAST project has been making significant progress for quite a few years now. This is just the next logic step towards a viable commercial fusion reactor.

 

[That Guy]

China and US both have its own independent controlled fusion program along with the international one. The Chinese EAST project has been making significant progress for quite a few years now. This is just the next logic step towards a viable commercial fusion reactor.

what fishy！We are fully capable of doing that!

We have been doing research in this area for quite some time. Check out item 9 of post # 17 of this thread:

http://www.defence.pk/forums/china-far-east/249386-china-prepares-spend-billions-science-technology-2.html

Sorry, I should have been more clear, what sounds fishy is the timeline, it just seems a bit fast.

 

[shuttler]

Sorry, I should have been more clear, what sounds fishy is the timeline, it just seems a bit fast.

No worries bro!

The chart by the op said " rough schedule"!

 

[That Guy]

Right, personally, I expect them to run into a hick up and delay it a few more years. To me, the 2020s and 2030s just seem to early.

 

[shuttler]

This is what our artificial sun looks like:

Testing started at the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) fusion reactor, nicknamed "the artificial sun", on Monday, January 14, 2007. This round of tests will continue until February 10. [Photo: Xinhua] [/IMG]



Previous reports for those who are not following the project:

UPDATED: 10:52, January 21, 2006
China to build world's first "artificial sun" experimental device

UPDATED: 08:33, March 28, 2006
China's "artificial sun" finishes first engineering adjustment

UPDATED: 17:16, May 22, 2006
China's artificial sun finishes all engineering adjustment


UPDATED: 16:43, May 22, 2006
China's "artificial sun" opens to the public

UPDATED: 19:30, July 24, 2006
Discharge test on Chinese "artificial sun" to be carried out in August

Updated: 2006-09-28 22:51
China successfully tests artificial sun

 

[GR!FF!N]

Don't Mind,even China is involved ITER project,which is an international collaboration.but Chinese project seems too fast,even for ITER.isn't something fishy here??

 

[shuttler]

CHINA'S ARTIFICIAL SUN


Hefei will become the first institute in the world to have built an all-superconducting non-circular section nuclear fusion experiment facility -- an artificial sun.

This is an area of power generation I’ve come back to several times in the decades since I worked for a vendor to contractors building nuclear fission-based power plants in the US. Though my experience with that industry was pretty negative, it never set aside my view of the capabilities of the science involved — and especially the potential of the following generations of research into nuclear fusion-generated power. Notably, we can avoid most of the problems associated with radioactive waste.

An experimental device that aims to generate clean energy using nuclear fusion will be [completed] in the next few months in Hefei, capital city of East China’s Anhui Province.

The new device will be an upgrade of China’s first superconducting Tokamak device, dubbed HT-7, which was built by the plasma physics institute, in partnership with Russia, in the early 1990s.

HT-7 made China the fourth country in the world, after Russia, France and Japan, to have such a device.

Scientists believe that deuterium, extracted from seawater, can be used to produce enormous amounts of energy from a deuterium-tritium fusion reaction under huge temperatures of 100 million C.

After nuclear fusion, the deuterium extracted from one litre of seawater will produce energy equivalent to 300 litres of gasoline.

The European Union, the United States, Russia, Japan, South Korea and China are partners in the Cadarache project in France — which is just breaking ground after 18 months of political wrangling, mostly between France and Japan on where the latest ITER project would be built. It’s much more expensive than the Chinese project. Presumably it’s larger.

I hope to see these experiments bearing fruit, sooner or later. We’ve been waiting a long time.

Posted: Mon - January 23, 2006 at 07:39 AM

China's Artificial Sun

 

[David James]

While India will be sending a mission on real Sun.

Aditya (spacecraft) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[shuttler]

CHINA'S ARTIFICIAL SUN


Hefei will become the first institute in the world to have built an all-superconducting non-circular section nuclear fusion experiment facility -- an artificial sun.

This is an area of power generation I’ve come back to several times in the decades since I worked for a vendor to contractors building nuclear fission-based power plants in the US. Though my experience with that industry was pretty negative, it never set aside my view of the capabilities of the science involved — and especially the potential of the following generations of research into nuclear fusion-generated power. Notably, we can avoid most of the problems associated with radioactive waste.

An experimental device that aims to generate clean energy using nuclear fusion will be [completed] in the next few months in Hefei, capital city of East China’s Anhui Province.

The new device will be an upgrade of China’s first superconducting Tokamak device, dubbed HT-7, which was built by the plasma physics institute, in partnership with Russia, in the early 1990s.

HT-7 made China the fourth country in the world, after Russia, France and Japan, to have such a device.

Scientists believe that deuterium, extracted from seawater, can be used to produce enormous amounts of energy from a deuterium-tritium fusion reaction under huge temperatures of 100 million C.

After nuclear fusion, the deuterium extracted from one litre of seawater will produce energy equivalent to 300 litres of gasoline.

The European Union, the United States, Russia, Japan, South Korea and China are partners in the Cadarache project in France — which is just breaking ground after 18 months of political wrangling, mostly between France and Japan on where the latest ITER project would be built. It’s much more expensive than the Chinese project. Presumably it’s larger.

I hope to see these experiments bearing fruit, sooner or later. We’ve been waiting a long time.

Posted: Mon - January 23, 2006 at 07:39 AM

China's Artificial Sun

China to test its 'artificial sun'
Jul 25, 2006

The first plasma discharge from China's experimental advanced superconducting research center -- the so-called "artificial sun" -- is set to occur next month.

The discharge, expected about Aug. 15, will be conducted at Science Island in Hefei, in east China's Anhui Province, the Peoples Daily reported Monday.

Scientists told the newspaper a successful test will mean the world's first nuclear fusion device of its kind will be ready to go into actual operation, the newspaper said.

The plasma discharge will draw international attention since some scientists are concerned with risks involved in such a process. But Chinese researchers involved in the project say any radiation will cease once the test is completed.

The experiment will take place in a structure made of reinforced concrete, with five-foot-thick walls and a three-foot-thick roof.


Read more at: China to test its 'artificial sun'

 

[shuttler]

Right, personally, I expect them to run into a hick up and delay it a few more years. To me, the 2020s and 2030s just seem to early.

dont let your jealousy blind you like incapable indians

we have successfully tested running the project 6 or 7 years ago, being the first country to have this accomplishment and now another 7 years to start industrialized construction and then launching phase I in 2016 - 13 years from now. Plenty of time and a project well done and well planned!

 

[Secur]

I do not doubt the Chinese potential , but I doubt if the technology for controlling fusion is there .

 

[MilSpec]

Wow, this is exceptionally impressive development...