India's activities in nuclear fusion

摘要

IN JANUARY 2020 INDIA'S FIRST Tokamak, the Aditya, completed 30 years of safe operation. Those thirty years saw India making steady if limited investments in nuclear fusion research. Apart from creating some tokamak 'assets' such as the Aditya and the Steady-State Superconducting Tokamak (SST-1), India's fusion-related activities have been heavily focused on domestic sub-systems development, given the country's history of being subject to abrupt technology denials. Domestic efforts in sub-systems development and basic research related to advanced tokamaks since the 1980s have positioned India to be a major partner in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project, which is expected to yield the world's largest tokamak-based reactor.