Chinese Academy of Sciences
Location: Hefei, Anhui
Subsidiaries/Affiliates: Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), Institute of Plasma Physics, Institute of Solid State Physics, Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology, EAST, CRAFT, BEST, USTC, International Science Program on Fusion Burning Plasma
Summary: Built China’s first tokamak device (the HT-6) in 1974; now manages the EAST reactor, the world’s first fully superconducting tokamak, and is currently building the BEST and CRAFT devices, which will test compact reactor concepts and fusion reactor cores.
China National Nuclear Corporation
Location: Beijing
Subsidiaries/Affiliates: Southwestern Institute of Physics (SWIP), Nuclear Power Institute of China (NPIC), HL-3, China Fusion Energy
Summary: Built China’s first indigenous tokamak and the first large-scale scientific engineering nuclear fusion facility (the HL-1) in Chengdu in 1984; the facility has been upgraded to the HL-3, the largest the highest parameter advanced tokamak in China. China Fusion Energy is a subsidiary of CNNC based in Shanghai that aims to commercialize nuclear fusion and is China’s largest nuclear fusion company by capitalization and market value.
