China’s HS HT-6M tokamak, one of four fusion devices developed by the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP), has been dismantled into 462 major parts and packaged carefully in six containers, ready for its scheduled mid-December shipment to its new home at the Thailand Institute of Nuclear Technology (TINT), in a building erected especially to house it. This is a huge operation: the tokamak, now renamed the Thailand Tokamak 1 (TT-1) weighs 84 tons.
Reporting this exciting announcement on Nov. 18, Xinhua wrote that the TT-1 is expected to arrive in Thailand in early January 2023. Some 60 Chinese scientists and engineers will be sent to Thailand in three groups, to help assemble, adjust and test the machine before its official launch early next year.
