Japan is preparing to create an organization next March that will bring together representatives of the private sector, government and academia. The purpose of its creation was to coordinate work on the development of thermonuclear fusion, the newspaper writes Nikkei.
The new structure will be tentatively called Thermonuclear Energy Forum. Its duty will be to analyze the technological needs of the sector and accelerate the development process by managing the resources and technologies of its members. The organization will advise the Japanese government on security regulations and technological standards in the industry. Another function of the forum will be to interact with the country’s foreign partners.
Participants in the new structure include major Japanese engineering and energy companies – IHI, JGC Holdings, Inpex, the newly formed Kyoto Fusioneering and EX-Fusion and others. The organization planned to realize commercial applications of nuclear fusion by the 2030s.
“We are coming together to create a fusion industry in Japan, and I hope this will attract companies that have not been involved in this field before,” said Satoshi Konishi, CEO of Kyoto Fusioneering.
Currently, technologies are being developed all over the world to maintain a stable reaction in a thermonuclear reactor. Japan has its own important developments in this field, but expects help from foreign partners. Therefore, Japanese company Kyoto Fusioneering uses some of the best gyrotrons, which are important components needed to heat the plasma in the reactor.
He was reported to be in Japan in early December. started The world’s largest experimental fusion reactor. It is a six-story building located in the city of Naka, north of Tokyo. Inside there is a tokamak – a donut or donut-shaped chamber with toroidal magnetic coils. The installation is designed to contain rotating plasma heated to 200 million °C in a magnetic field, which is 36 thousand times hotter than the surface of the Sun.
Previously was created A new material to protect thermonuclear reactors from hot plasma.