China targets nuclear fusion power generation by 2040

Hefei:  China aims to complete and start generating power from an experimental nuclear fusion reactor by around 2040, a senior scientist involved in the project said, as it works to develop and commercialise a game-changing source of clean energy.

Workers walk past Qinshan No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant,
China's first self-designed and self-built national commercial
 nuclear power plant in 2005.

It is preparing to restart its stalled domestic nuclear reactor program after a three-year moratorium on new approvals, but at a state laboratory in the city of Hefei, in China's Anhui province, scientists are looking beyond crude atom-splitting in order to pursue nuclear fusion, where power is generated by combining nuclei together, an endeavour likened by sceptics to "putting the sun in a box”.

Read the story from The Age by David Stanway - “China targets nuclear fusion power generation by 2040.”