[Featured Stock] EM Korea Successfully Manufactures Fusion Reactor Shield Withstands 100 Million... Fusion Commercialization Expected

[Asia Economy Reporter Hyunseok Yoo] EM Korea is showing strong performance. It appears that the news of the first completed product of the ‘blanket shield block,’ which acts as a ‘shield’ protecting the fusion reactor from ultra-high temperature plasma exceeding 100 million degrees and neutrons, being manufactured domestically has had an impact.

As of 9:53 AM on the 7th, EM Korea was trading at 4,980 KRW, up 3.64% (175 KRW) compared to the previous trading day.

The National Fusion Research Institute announced that it has succeeded in developing the initial product of the ‘blanket shield block,’ one of the core items South Korea is responsible for in the international joint research and development project for fusion energy development, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) construction. Earlier this year, the National Fusion Research Institute signed a contract with EM Korea for the production of construction materials for ITER. The ITER blanket shield block produced by EM Korea is a shielding structure designed to protect major ITER components such as the vacuum vessel and superconducting magnets from neutrons generated by fusion reactions.

EM Korea is responsible for all the shield blocks that South Korea must supply. A total of 440 blanket shield blocks will be installed in ITER, and South Korea will supply 220 of them.

Domestic researchers developed a special stainless steel selected by ITER to manufacture blanket shield blocks capable of withstanding extreme environments. The inside of the shield block was designed considering the plasma shape, and the outside was designed to fit closely to the vacuum vessel, completing a complex shape production design that takes into account all coils and piping.

The blanket shield block passed non-destructive testing and completed performance tests under high temperature and high vacuum conditions similar to the actual ITER operating environment, using the world’s first ultra-large high-temperature helium leak test facility developed domestically.