Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. has received an order from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency for some 30 tons of superconductingcables to be used in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor(ITER) that is currently under construction in France.
The ITER project is building an experimental reactor(ITER) in Cadarache, France with the cooperation of the Member countries and will conduct scientific and technological verifications for the realization of fusion energy.
At the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor(ITER), which is expected to begin operation in 2020, it has been decided that H-mode will be the standard operation condition for plasma.
In the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor committee set up to decide location for the firstexperimental fusion plant Japan has already lost out to France.
Within the experimental reactor of ITER, plasma, which is superheated to over 100 million degrees, is restrained by an intense magnetic field to initiate nuclear fusion.
In the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor(ITER), too, a solid divertor composed of tungsten blocks that will be cooled by water is being adopted.
Further, when the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor(ITER) under construction at present is completed and operation begins, researchers around the world will begin to conduct collaborative research by utilizing ITER.
The scale of the project and the costs of the ILC are roughly equivalent to the largest present-day science projects,like the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor(ITER), and the Large Hadron Collider(LHC).
The results are anticipated to be beneficial in improving plasma not only in helical devices such as LHD,but also in tokamaks as represented by the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor(ITER), which is currently under construction.
To achieve his dream of"electricity generation by nuclear fusion",he told of his desire to participate in International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor(ITER), the ongoing project in France.
The activities envisaged with CFS are divided into three phases: the first involves the development of high-temperature superconducting magnets,the second the realization of an experimental reactor, the third and last the construction and operation of the first industrial plant that can guarantee a production continuous and remunerative fusion energy.
The microwave collective Thomson scattering method is considered an essential measuring method for the future fusion power plant, and, at present, it is scheduled to be one of the diagnosticsdevices affixed to the ITER International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor.
The equipment and measures for the experimental reactor(ITER) are made by collaborating and allotting work among Member countries, but Japan is responsible for the most work involving cutting edge high tech equipment which requires advanced levels of scientific technology.
For example, there took place a series of accidents at US experimental reactor test sites, including an explosion at the SL1 project in Idaho in 1961, which killed three operators- one of whom was impaled to the roof by a fuel rod.
More than 50 years have passed since the development of fusion energy began, and this energy is also continuously called an energy of one's"dream."However,the generation of fusion energy through ITER(International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) is planned for 2027, and research has developed such that actual generation through a prototype reactor 25 to 30 years in the future may be achieved.
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