Japanese firm to build country's first nuclear fusion power plant
A Japanese venture has developed a plan to build the country's first nuclear fusion power plant.
Kyoto Fusioneering Ltd., a startup company based in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, has secured funds for the experimental project and plans to start operations at the plant in the next five years, CEO Taka Nagao said in a recent interview, Japanese media reported on Saturday.
Nagao pointed out that while experimental reactors aimed at showing the feasibility of nuclear-fusion-power generation exist in Japan and abroad, “a plant that actually generates power is rare.”
Unlike nuclear power generation, which involves fission chain reactions, fusion power generation converts the energy created by merging nuclei into electricity; and is considered safer than nuclear power plants with less highly radioactive nuclear wastes.
The growing trend to create cleaner energy through nuclear fusion has prompted the Japanese to take a shot in this field.
In Europe, the Munich-based Marvel Fusion and Siemens Energy, alongside France’s Thales and the privately-owned German mechanical engineering group Trumpf, have joined the race to create energy through nuclear fusion, as well.
Last month, the European Union's internal market commissioner said the bloc would need to invest 500 billion euros ($568 billion) in new generation nuclear power stations until 2050.
The Japanese people are still reeling from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake in Japan followed by a massive15-meter high tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three nuclear reactors, causing a meltdown at the power plant. The long-lasting radioactive material that leaked has made a large area around the site uninhabitable for at least 100 years.
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