Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning shared with the world China's "artificial sun" on October 25: It is expected to be completed in 2027 and is expected to become the first device to achieve fusion power generation in human history.It is understood that the launch ceremony for the final engineering assembly of the BEST device was held in May this year at the Fusion Reactor Host Key System Comprehensive Research Facility Park in Hefei, Anhui.
On October 1, the Dewar base, a key component of the BEST device host, was successfully developed and successfully delivered. It was successfully and accurately installed in the BEST device host hall.
As the first key component to be stationed in the host hall, the installation of the Dewar base marks that the construction of the main project of the BEST project has entered a new stage, and the progress of component development and engineering installation will be accelerated.
The Compact Fusion Energy Experimental Device (Burning Experimental Superconducting Tokamak, BEST) is a combustion plasma physics experimental device.Adopting the technical route of compact high-field superconducting tokamak, and using new technologies such as high-performance superconducting magnets, high-power neutral beam heating, and deuterium-tritium fusion fuel, it will be the first time in the world to verify that fusion can achieve net output energy in a real fuel environment and demonstrate nuclear fusion power generation.
Compact fusion energy experimental device park project (BEST) renderings
It is understood that the total land area of the project is approximately 160,000 square meters, and the total construction area is approximately 150,000 square meters.
As a follow-up project to the fully superconducting Tokamak nuclear fusion experimental device (EAST), the BEST device is expected to be completed in two years.It will realize the first fusion energy power generation demonstration in the world and light up the first light by 2030.
EAST has a nuclear fusion reaction mechanism similar to that of the sun and is used to explore nuclear fusion energy applications.
Nuclear fusion is the "aggregation" of two light-mass nuclei into one heavy nucleus. We know that energy is conserved, and the "disappeared" mass will be converted into huge energy, and the energy is higher than nuclear fission.
Fusion energy has many advantages such as unlimited, economical, planable, clean, and safe. It is the ultimate form of energy that humans can master under the current level of scientific development, and will even push human civilization into the next stage of development.