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.
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.