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China contributes 10% cost of ITER project
Monday, 07 January 2008 16:00
China will contribute about 10 billion yuan (1.4 billion U.S. dollars), or 10 percent of the total cost, to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project which will start in France this year.
About half of China's contribution will be spent during the 10-year construction phase of the multination undertaking.
"The goal of the project is to find a shortcut to solve our energy shortage," China Daily quoted Luo Delong, deputy director of the ITER China Office as saying.
Chinese researchers will be in charge of building components such as heating, diagnostic and remote maintenance equipment, as well as transporting it to Cadarache in the south of France, wherethe ITER reactor will be built.
ITER, which means "the way" in Latin, is an 11-billion-euro (15.5 billion U.S. dollars) experiment to study the scientific and technical feasibility of the world's most advanced nuclear fusion reactor. The device is described as an "artificial sun" as it will create conditions similar to those occurring in solar nuclear fusion reactions.
If successful, the project could generate infinite, safe and clean energy to replace fossil fuels such as oil and coal, and will be 30 times more powerful than the Joint European Torus (JET), the largest comparable experiment.
Source: Xinhua
About half of China's contribution will be spent during the 10-year construction phase of the multination undertaking.
"The goal of the project is to find a shortcut to solve our energy shortage," China Daily quoted Luo Delong, deputy director of the ITER China Office as saying.
Chinese researchers will be in charge of building components such as heating, diagnostic and remote maintenance equipment, as well as transporting it to Cadarache in the south of France, wherethe ITER reactor will be built.
ITER, which means "the way" in Latin, is an 11-billion-euro (15.5 billion U.S. dollars) experiment to study the scientific and technical feasibility of the world's most advanced nuclear fusion reactor. The device is described as an "artificial sun" as it will create conditions similar to those occurring in solar nuclear fusion reactions.
If successful, the project could generate infinite, safe and clean energy to replace fossil fuels such as oil and coal, and will be 30 times more powerful than the Joint European Torus (JET), the largest comparable experiment.
Source: Xinhua