Fusion and Nuclear Energy
Wang Ganchang is the founder of Chinese laser fusion technology. In 1964 the Shanghai Optical Machinery Institute (上海光机所) developed a high-power 10 MW output laser. In late December of the same year, he proposed to the State Council using high-power laser beam targeting to achieve inertial confinement fusion, idea also independently developed at the same time by his Soviet counterpart Nikolai Gennadievich Basov. Unfortunately, due to political turmoil causing seven years of delay, his leading position in this field was lost.
By the end of 1978, his inertial confinement fusion research group established by the Atomic Energy began the construction of high-current accelerator. As an advocate of nuclear energy, he made with four nuclear experts in October 1978 the proposition to develop China's nuclear power. In 1980, Wang Ganchang promoted the plan of building 20 nuclear power plants including Qinshan, Zhejiang Province, Daya Bay, Guangzhou and Chinshan.
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