What is Fusion Energy?

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The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) program is also known as the "Artificial Sun" program. In 1985, with the initiative of the US and Soviet leaders and the endorsement of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the major international scientific and technological cooperation program ITER (ie, International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) was established with the goal of building a self-sustaining combustion "Ignition") nuclear fusion experimental reactor to verify the engineering feasibility of the fusion reactor.

The ITER plan is independent of the IAEA, and was originally built by Russia, Japan, the United States, and Europe. In February 2003, at the "ITER Eighth Intergovernmental Negotiation Conference" held in St. Petersburg, Russia, China announced that it would participate in the plan negotiations as a full independent member. This means that China promises to assume 10% of the total cost of the ITER project of 4.6 billion euros and enjoy all intellectual property rights.

On May 24, 2006, at the EU headquarters in Brussels, representatives of China, the European Union, the United States, South Korea, Japan, Russia, and India jointly drafted the "Agreement on the Establishment of an International Organization for the Joint Implementation of the International Thermonuclear Fusion Reactor (ITER) Plan". It indicates that the ITER plan has actually entered the formal implementation stage, and it also signifies that China has actually participated in this plan.

Like the International Space Station Research, European Accelerator, and Human Genome Sequencing Research, the ITER project is also a large-scale international scientific and technological cooperation project. The results of its implementation will determine whether humans can use nuclear fusion energy quickly and on a large scale, which may affect the process of fundamentally solving human energy problems, so its significance and impact are very significant.

The 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference came to an end, and an agreement to combat climate change was successfully reached. Nearly 200 parties returned to China with their respective tasks. In addition to promoting the world to a low-greenhouse gas era from top to bottom through political initiatives, the most fundamental problem is to use scientific and technological power to find real green energy that can be continuously used by human beings. Nuclear fusion energy has focused on the scientific community's most concern. New energy one.