JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY

epa01421462 The red tubes of the Radiofrequency Heating System seen at the JT-60, a fusion plasma research facility run by JAEA (Japan Atomic Energy Agency) at the Naka Fusion Institute in Naka city, adjacent to Tokai village, approximately 110 km northeast of Tokyo in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, 23 July 2008. Since the beginning of its operation in 1985 at JAEA's Naka Fusion Institute, the JT-60 has been playing an active role as a leader of the world's nuclear research, achieving 520 million degrees centigrade of high temperature plasma in 1996, which was registered in the Guinness World Records as the highest temperature ever reached by human endeavor. It will now undergo a large scale renovation as it is scheduled to be used as a satellite facility of the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) in Cadarache, southern France, which will start its operation sometime around 2017. Aiming at constructing the first nucear fusion experimental plant, the ITER project has started and is joined by Japan, EU, Russia, US, South Korea, China and India. A Joint Implementation Agreement was signed in November 2006 by the ITER Parties and came into effect in October 2007, making the official start of te international project. JAEA is designated as Japan's domestic agency in charge of producing machines and equipment for which Japan is responsible under the ITER Agreement, and providing human resources to ITER. EPA/DAI KUROKAWA

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