Fusion News: China Digital Times- Fusion Power, China, and Political Will
The New Yorker, Raffi Khatchadourian expoloration of the ITER and its difficulties assess China’s political will in devotion to the ITER. As reported by China Digital Times in the article, “Fusion Power, China, and Political Will:”
The Hefei facility—the EAST, or Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (itself, Khatchadourian explains, short for the Russian toroidalnaya kamera s aksialnym magnitnym polem, or “toroidal chamber with axial magnetic field”)—achieved a major advance in plasma containment time last last year. Although mentioned only a handful of times in Khatchadourian’s piece, China’s efforts cast a long shadow over it in light of ITER’s litany of stops and false starts and the “hare and tortoise” progress of the Chinese space program.
