China has made world’s first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak device – ‘HH70’

Current Context : China witnessed a historic moment with the completion and operation of the world’s first fully high-temperature superconducting tokamak device, named HH70, in its eastern Municipality of Shanghai.

ABOUT TOKAMAK

• Tokamak devices, often called “artificial suns,” are traditionally large and expensive.
• Tokamak is a machine for controlled thermonuclear fusion with a toroidal shape, similar to a doughnut.
• Designed and built by a commercial company, Energy Singularity.

SIMILAR INITIATIVE

Previously, the EU and Japan inaugurated JT-60SA, the world’s largest and most advanced Tokamak fusion reactor in Japan and pledged support to advance fusion research for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER).

ABOUT INTERNATIONAL THERMONUCLEAR EXPERIMENTAL REACTOR (ITER).

• ITER is a global scientific partnership between China, Europe, Japan, India, the Republic of Korea, Russia and the US.
• It’s currently under construction in
• Objective: To prove the viability of fusion as an energy source.
• It will be the largest Tokamak device to test magnetic confinement to produce fusion energy.

India formally joined the ITER Project in 2005.