Italy supplies nuclear fusion reactor component to Japan
(AGI) Rome, Sept 29 - The first superconducting magnet for theJT-60SA experimental nuclear fusion reactor under constructionin Japan was presented in Genoa on Tuesday by ENEA, the ItalianNational Agency for New Technologies, Energy and SustainableEconomic Development, and ASG Superconductors, asuperconducting magnet manufacturing company. The Tokamak, aplant that will begin the plasma burn-through in 2019,reproduces the same nuclear reaction that occurs in stars. Itis part of the Broader Approach Programme promoted by Europeand Japan to accelerate research on nuclear fusion. The agencysaid that the Euro-Japanese Tokamak ITER being manufactured inCadarache,