BEIJING (AP) - China claims to have carried out a successful first test Thursday on its experimental thermonuclear fusion reactor, state media reported.
China has been eager to claim progress in the project, said to be the first such reactor in the world, as well as other advanced technologies.
-Wow! Looks like Otto's dream may come true.
The brief Xinhua News Agency report gave no details about the nature of the test or the results. The test was carried out on a Tokamak fusion device, built in Hefei, the capital of eastern China's Anhui province, it said. The facility is a smaller version of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) to be built in southern France, which is not expected to be fully operational for a decade, state media reported in June. Fusion reproduces the sun's power source and produces no greenhouse gas emissions and only low levels of radioactive waste. Researchers hope it may eventually provide a cheaper, safer, cleaner and endless energy resource, reducing the world's dependence on fossil fuels and nuclear power. China has been eager to claim progress in the project, said to be the first such reactor in the world, as well as other advanced technologies.
-Wow! Looks like Otto's dream may come true.
