4 billion yuan in 10 years, the future investment intensity or greater. On the 28th, the Ministry of Science and Technology held a seminar on "ITER Decade-Review and Prospects" in Beijing. The Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang said that he would continue to promote the implementation of the ITER plan and continuously improve China's R & D capabilities and technological level in the field of nuclear fusion energy.
Controlled nuclear fusion is called the "artificial sun." The International Thermonuclear Fusion Experimental Reactor Program (ITER) is currently one of the largest and most influential international scientific research cooperation projects in the world. It is jointly carried out by China, Europe, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia, and the United States.
Luo Delong, director of the China International Nuclear Fusion Energy Program Executive Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology, said that from 2008 to 2017, driven by China's participation in the ITER program, a total of 119 projects were deployed for national magnetically constrained nuclear fusion development research, with a total of about 4 billion in funding yuan. It has achieved many international and domestic first research results, putting China in a leading position in the field of nuclear fusion, even in some respects. For example, EAST achieves 101.2 seconds of steady-state long-pulse high-constrained plasma operation, and is the world's first tokamak nuclear fusion experimental device to achieve steady-state high-constrained mode operation durations in the order of hundreds of seconds.
"Scientific research on artificial sun is still in the engineering construction stage." According to Pan Chuanhong, director of the Nuclear Fusion Energy Program Executive Center, according to the deployment of the ITER program, 2007 to 2025 is the construction phase; 2026 to 2037 is the operation phase; 2037 To 2042 is the deactivation stage. Commercial application of nuclear fusion energy is expected around 2050.
"Contributing to the" China Wisdom "and the" China Plan "for tackling global climate change, the peaceful use of nuclear energy and sustainable human development." Wan Gang said that the ITER program is currently the world ’s largest scientific engineering program after the International Space Station. In the past ten years, China has fulfilled its commitments and obligations earnestly, and all the ITER procurement package manufacturing tasks undertaken have been signed and fully affirmed by all parties involved in ITER. Participation in the ITER program has effectively enhanced China's scientific and technological innovation capabilities, international project management capabilities, and professional and technical personnel training capabilities. China has made great progress in research and development capabilities and technical levels in materials science, superconducting technology, precision processing and other related fields, and some technologies have successfully achieved industrialization.
At this meeting, the international fusion community will discuss and sign the "Beijing Declaration", clarify the purpose and significance of fusion energy research and development, strengthen cooperation, and contribute to the ultimate solution of world energy shortages and environmental pollution. Chinese experts also introduced the design progress of China's fusion engineering experimental reactor (CFETR), and looked forward to the future development of nuclear fusion in China.