Japan Inaugurates World's Largest Experimental Nuclear Fusion Reactor

The JT-60SA Reactor, a Joint Project Between the EU and Japan, Aims to Investigate the Feasibility of Fusion as a Safe, Large-Scale, Carbon-Free Source of Net Energy

• Japan has inaugurated the world's largest experimental nuclear fusion reactor, JT-60SA, a joint project between the European Union and Japan.
• The reactor, a tokamak, can heat plasma to 200 million degrees Celsius and is considered the most advanced of its kind in the world.
• The goal of the JT-60SA reactor is to investigate the feasibility of fusion as a safe, large-scale, and carbon-free source of net energy.
• The experiments conducted in JT-60SA will inform the science that will eventually take place in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a larger reactor currently under construction in France.
• Last year, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved net energy gain in a fusion reaction, a significant achievement in the quest for a source of unlimited, clean power.

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