“KSTAR has successfully achieved its First Plasma”

Dear all,

On behalf of the National Fusion Research Institute (NFRI), I would like to inform you that KSTAR has successfully achieved its first plasma target on July 15, 2008.

 Please find attached the press-release and some pictures from NFRI, announcing the achievement of the first plasma.

We really would appreciate it, if you would distribute this to your press and related institutes.

We also would be most delighted, if you would give us references of homepages, webzines, and press, where KSTAR's first plasma is posted. NFRI is ready to yield a cooperative system with the nations all over the world, and therefore is asking you for continuous and closer cooperation to achieve this goal.

Sincerely yours, Ms Sooyeon Ryu

p.s. : please forward this e-mail to your Public-Relations Team if you are not in charge of this.

(Shaohua reports)