21 January 2008:
http://www.iter.org/newsline/15/1025
Pakistan launches national fusion program
-Sabina Griffith
Realizing the importance of fusion and the worldwide effort in this regard, Pakistan has launched a National Tokamak Fusion Program to develop human resource and capacity building. Under this program, the
Government of Pakistan plans to install a small tokamak (like HT-6M of Hefei , China ) along with various accessories and diagnostics so as to acquire the basic scientific knowledge and the technical know-how of the fusion technology.
GLAST (tokamak) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
GLAST[2] (GLAss Spherical Tokamak)[2], is
a small spherical magnetic confinement tokamak fusion reactor installed at the National Center for Physics by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) in 2008, with close coordination and collaboration with China.[3] It is a Magnetic confinement fusion spherical tokamak with an insulating vacuum vessel. The reactor is primary use to conduct scientific studies and experiments on nuclear fusion power by consuming plasmas to identify the mechanism responsible for current penetration during start-up phase of the tokamak discharge.[4]
The reactor was developed by the PAEC with the help of Chinese assistance, and offers research on control plasmas.[5]