1 2021-06-07 08:52:56China Daily
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File photo taken on Sept 28, 2019 shows staff members of China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) Southwestern Institute of Physics working at the installation site of the HL-2M Tokamak, China s new-generation artificial sun, in Chengdu, Southwest China s Sichuan province. (CNNC Southwestern Institute of Physics/Handout via Xinhua)
After thousands of nuclear fusion experiments, Chinese scientists made a big breakthrough on May 28 in their quest to create an artificial sun that could help solve the world s energy problems.
They set a record for sustained heat in nuclear plasma-a temperature of 120 million C for 101 seconds-said Gong Xianzu, a physicist in charge of the experiment in Hefei, Anhui province.
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Credit: ZHU Qingjun
To realize tritium self-sustaining cycle through tritium breeding blanket has been one of the core technologies of future fusion reactor. Therefore the design and function of blanket must be validated by neutronic experiment under D-T neutron environment. But due to the scarcity of DT neutron source, and highly radioactivity during neutronic experiments, it is very difficult to validate the nuclear response of the blanket, the data of tritium production rate mainly rely on Monte Carlo simulation.
Recently, a research group led by ZHU Qingjun from Institute of Plasma Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), made progress in the experimental research on tritium production of fusion blanket mock-up, and obtained the experimental data of tritium production rate.