FPN07-48
Commercial Fusion by 2040 Says Korean President
September 14, 2007
Korea will grow into one of the world's top five countries in nuclear
fusion energy technology by 2021 and start commercial generation of
electricity from nuclear fusion by 2040 said South Korean President Roh
Moo-hyun, according to a September 14 news report in the Korean independent
newspaper The Hankyoreh. Roh's remarks came at a dedication ceremony for
the newly completed US$330 million KSTAR superconducting tokamak.
Initiation of the KSTAR was in 1995, the same year that Congress killed a
similar project, the Tokamak Physics Experiment (TPX), that was just
beginning construction in the U. S. TPX scientists and engineers
subsequently assisted Korea in the design and planning for KSTAR. The
facility is located at the Korean National Fusion Research Institute in
Daejon.
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