BEST, the Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak is under construction in Hefei, China. A new, nearly 200-page joint research plan from ASIPP and EUROfusion spells out exactly what the facility aims to deliver.
It’s a China – Europe joint articulation of a concrete, phased mission for a fusion machine that sits directly between the present era of superconducting non-tritium machines (e.g., EAST) and a future pilot plant (CFEDR). The image below from the report clearly shows the strategic location that BEST is intended to play.
