The NFRI and its counterparts discussed the direction of joint research and experiment issues.
▲Scientists of the three Asian countries hold a meeting to discuss ways of conducting joint research on nuclear fusion energy.
The National Fusion Research Institute (NFRI, Director General: Kwon Myeun) held on August 22 the ‘Coordicators’ Meeting for the A3 Foresight Program’ jointly with China and Japan to discuss ways of collaborating and developing nuclear fusion energy. The tripartite meeting was held at the Ramada Plaza Jeju Hotel.
The meeting was attended by about 30 scientists from these three countries, including Director General of the NFRI Kwon Myeon, Director General Komori Akio of the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) of Japan, and Director General Jianggang Li of the Institute of Plasma Physics in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP), as well as their researchers.
At the meeting, scientists from the three countries discussed research areas and joint experiment issues in which they can cooperate for commercializing nuclear fusion energy. Specifically, they discussed ways of conducting joint research projects by specialists of three countries for commercializing nuclear fusion energy, including the project of ‘maintaining a steady state of high performance plasma’. They also made extensive discussion on the means of jointly conducting experiments using superconducting nuclear fusion devices in the three countries (KSTAR in Korea, EAST in China and LHD in Japan), and of resolving various issues caused by operating the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) for many hours by actively exchanging researchers with each other. In addition, they sought ways of taking initiative in operating the ITER and constructing nuclear power reactors.
Director General of the NFRI Kwon Myeon said, “Through closer cooperation between the three Asian countries in conducting research and developing nuclear fusion energy, and future potential green energy, we will make an effort to commercialize such energies early and take initiative in the next generation energy source.”
Source:todayenergy
