A drone photo taken on April 25, 2024 shows the superconducting TF coil winding line at the park of Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology (CRAFT) in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province. Scientific researchers and engineers are speeding up the construction of CRAFT as the project, a facility in pipeline, serving as a platform on which key components for fusion energy reactors are developed and tested, is expected to be finished in 2025. (Xinhua/Zhou Mu)
A drone photo taken on April 25, 2024 shows staff members operates a machine that makes superconducting TF coils at the park of Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology (CRAFT) in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, April 25, 2024. Scientific researchers and engineers are speeding up the construction of CRAFT as the project, a facility in pipeline, serving as a platform on which key components for fusion energy reactors are developed and tested, is expected to be finished in 2025. (Xinhua/Zhou Mu)
An aerial drone photo taken on April 25, 2024 shows the park of Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology (CRAFT) in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province. Scientific researchers and engineers are speeding up the construction of CRAFT as the project, a facility in pipeline, serving as a platform on which key components for fusion energy reactors are developed and tested, is expected to be finished in 2025. (Xinhua/Zhou Mu)
Staff members assemble the megawatt-level negative ion beam source at the park of Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology (CRAFT) in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, April 25, 2024. Scientific researchers and engineers are speeding up the construction of CRAFT as the project, a facility in pipeline, serving as a platform on which key components for fusion energy reactors are developed and tested, is expected to be finished in 2025. (Xinhua/Zhou Mu)
Staff members set up equipment in the Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology (CRAFT) in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, April 25, 2024. Scientific researchers and engineers are speeding up the construction of CRAFT as the project, a facility in pipeline, serving as a platform on which key components for fusion energy reactors are developed and tested, is expected to be finished in 2025. (Xinhua/Zhou Mu)
Staff members carry out vibration testing on high speed power transmission shaft at the park of Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology (CRAFT) in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, April 25, 2024. Scientific researchers and engineers are speeding up the construction of CRAFT as the project, a facility in pipeline, serving as a platform on which key components for fusion energy reactors are developed and tested, is expected to be finished in 2025. (Xinhua/Zhou Mu)
Over three years have passed since the Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology (CRAFT) started on December 14, 2018 its site infrastructure construction, and is now completed. The site infrastructure, actually a complex with labs, factories and user instruments, covers an area of around 400 thousand square meters. It is to provide a space for scientific daily work, administration and supportive operation.
China is building a research facility to incubate core technologies used in power generation of fusion energy that powers the sun. The facility in the pipeline, called "Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology" (CRAFT), is a platform on which engineers develop and test fusion energy reactor's key components. It is expected to be finished in 2025.
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