HFIPS is the main research center in China conducting work in fronts to explore nuclear fusion research both in high performance steady state plasma study and technology development. In the past several decades, HFIPS has constructed four generations of Tokamak facilities among which the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak(EAST) is the world’s first non-circular cross-section fully superconducting Tokamak, based on which HFIPS conducts physical experiments on high performance steady operation mode; acquires experience on physical design and operation mode for ITER and CFETR (the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor). Besides the fusion facility HFIPS operates, it also is an active part in ITER program developing key ITER-targeting technology. The work HFIPS has done for fusion facility construction and ITER participation makes it capable to do pre-research for CFETR.
HFIPS’s work in energy also covers the research on advanced nuclear energy and nuclear energy safety, like neutron physics and radiation safety for sustainability for nuclear energy.
With a reasonable and effective calculation method, physicists from Institute of Plasma Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences, successfully calculated the maximum allowable offset of simultaneous position and angle migration under the premise of extremely many variables.
Nuclear fusion is the progress taking place every second in the Sun to provide light and heat that the Earth lives on. For human who is dreaming to bring the sun power to the earth through controlled fusion reaction will face tons of challenges of which some are physical problem the other are technology or engineering.
Recently, a research team led by Prof.GAO Ge and JIANG Li fromInstitute of Plasma Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science ofChinese Academy of Sciences, studied the fault diagnosis of pulse width modulation converter and proposed a neural network fault diagnosis algorithm to solve existing problem in this field.