East gets a head start in steady-state tokamak physics

摘要

While the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project is underway at Cadarache, France, an initiative in building the next-generation tokamak at the CAS Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, offers crucial expertise. On Sept. 26, the first plasma was produced at China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), the world's first fully superconducting tokamak with a non-circle cross-section, which was designed and built by CAS physicists and engineers.