HL-2M Tokamak
The HL-2M Tokamak, China's new-generation "artificial sun" device, completed its first discharge on Dec 4, 2020, in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The operation proved that China has mastered design, construction and operation of advanced large-scale Tokamak devices, laying a solid foundation for the country's development of nuclear fusion reactors.
With the best parameters, the device has a more advanced structure and control mode than its predecessors in China.
It is a base device of the leapfrog development of the nuclear fusion industry in China and an indispensable platform of relevant technologies for the country's involvement in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project.
A view of the HL-2M Tokamak that completed its first discharge on Dec 4 in Chengdu, Sichuan province [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
