GUANGZHOU, NOV 29 – A total of 48 blanket shield block modules left China today for France for the construction of the world’s largest experimental nuclear tokamak reactor.
Departing from Guangzhou, Guangdong province in southern China, the component is the first of its kind to be sent to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project in southern France.
The facility, sometimes referred to as an ‘artificial sun,’ is being built by China, the European Union, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK), Russia and the United States (US) to test the feasibility of fusion as a large-scale, clean energy source .
The ITER tokamak uses a magnetic cage to store, form and control very high temperature plasma to allow fusion reactions to occur.
The blanket shield block module is a critical vacuum component that provides protection against neutrons and thermal conduction under high thermal loads. – Xinhua
