EAST 3-shifts international joint experiment 2021 begins now

Every Monday, EAST Chief Operator presents the weekly plan for the EAST experiments

Considering the world epidemic situation, all the joint experiments have been done remotely.

At the EAST control room, the scientists are working together with the foreign partners 

“Open to share, fusion for future”. With over 120 fusion research collaborating institutes around the world, EAST holds its core value of openness by a global calling for experimental proposals each year since its completion in 2006. Characterized with three distinctive features non-circular cross-section, fully superconducting magnets, fully water cooled plasma facing components, EAST is capable of the exploration of advanced steady-state plasma operation. There are total 135 EAST proposals in 2021, including 28% of international proposals, which mainly proposed from the scientists in USA, France, Japan, Korea, Italy, Germany, and Denmark. As an open platform, EAST holds the international joint experiment annually, aiming to absorb valuable experience and intelligence from all over the world, which are beneficial to the development of Chinese fusion research.

In 2021, to become a more open and sharing platform and accelerate the path to future energy, EAST runs three-shifts on Asia, EU and American time zones, providing more opportunities for its collaborators at home and abroad.

As always, EAST is open to the global fusion community. We look forward to working with our international collaborators to achieve exciting results on EAST. Join us: http://east2.hfsxw.cn/ (XING Yuanli reports)