China and France is making joint efforts to build Sino-French Fusion Energy Center, or SIFFER to support International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER and its members as well as to develop and validate key components and technology for magnetic confinement fusion device.

The joint center drew senior officials of ITER and local government to attend its unveiling ceremony which was held at Hefei, the capital of Anhui province, China on January 11, 2018.

Under the framework of Sino-French Fusion Energy Center Implementing Agreement, the center is jointly established by its four implementing members, namely, ITER-China, Institute of Plasma Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, or ASIPP, Southwestern Institute of Physics, or SWIP and Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives, or CEA.

Sharing with common interest, SIFFER is striving to conduct researches on fusion science and experimental physics, safety standards and technical standards for fusion energy and next generation of fusion research device.

According to the its Implementing Agreement, tungsten divertor of Tungsten (W) Environment in Steady-state Tokamak , as SIFFER's first joint research project, is now on track.

Four implementing members of SIFFER (Image by ASIPP)

Contact:
WU Sha
Institute of Plasma Physics (http://english.ipp.cas.cn/)
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Email : wusha@ipp.ac.cn