Japan: World’s largest nuclear fusion reactor achieves first plasma

JT-60SA will also help ITER, the giant international fusion reactor that is being built in France, to demonstrate that fusion can produce more energy than it consumes.

Japan has successfully activated its new fusion reactor, JT-60SA, which uses superconducting magnets to confine a hot plasma in a doughnut-shaped chamber. The reactor, the largest and most advanced in the world, aims to study the physics of fusion energy and support the international ITER project in France.

As a compromise for letting France host ITER, the world’s largest fusion experiment, Japan received the opportunity to build JT-60SA and two other smaller fusion facilities. This was part of a 2007 agreement between Japan and the EU, which also involved upgrading Japan’s old JT-60 reactor that had been running since the mid-1980s. The reactor was completely rebuilt from the ground up, but the cost was not disclosed.

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