In the area of fusion energy development, QST has been involved in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Project, including the development of the JT-60SA (superconducting-coil tokamak plasma test device) at its Naka Fusion Institute. This work constitutes part of the broader approach (BA) activities being conducted by Japan and Europe to complement the ITER project.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, NTT has also been working with the national government\u2019s Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy and is advocating for the importance of advanced nuclear technology from the perspective of the information and communications industry.<\/p>\n
For nuclear fusion energy to be successfully commercialized, a key technological hurdle that must be overcome is controlling confined plasma.<\/p>\n
According to the recent announcement, QST and NTT noted that confining unstable plasma over long periods of time requires step-by-step operations to solve complicated equations involving significant computational challenges. Both parties emphasized the importance of creating a predictive<\/em> processing method, against this backdrop, they developed a new method for evaluating complex states, called the \u201cmixture of experts\u201d (MoE).<\/p>\n When used in the evaluation of confined plasma in magnetic fields at JT-60SA, the new method demonstrated the potential for real-time control of multiple parameters\u2014such as internal current and pressure distributions critical for avoiding plasma instability\u2014which was not achievable with conventional methods.<\/p>\n A working group within Japan\u2019s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) is currently deliberating on the development of a prototype reactor to demonstrate power generation, toward the realization of nuclear fusion energy and to follow the ITER Project.<\/p>\n At the same time, the government\u2019s Cabinet Office has invited comments from the public on securing the safety of nuclear fusion. Interest is growing within the private sector, including startups.<\/p>\n QST stated that it is working toward the swift commercialization of nuclear fusion through the application of various kinds of advanced technology\u2014including NTT\u2019s information and network vision known as \u201cIOWN\u201d (Innovative Optical and Wireless Network)\u2014to R&D on nuclear fusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the area of fusion energy development, QST has been involved in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Project, including the development of the JT-60SA (superconducting-coil tokamak plasma test device) at its Naka Fusion Institute. This work constitutes part of the broader approach (BA) activities being conducted by Japan and Europe to complement the ITER […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1264,654,655,187,1150,1047,483],"class_list":["post-7422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-iown","tag-iter","tag-jt-60sa","tag-mext","tag-ntt","tag-nuclear-fusion","tag-qst"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7424,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7422\/revisions\/7424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}