(EyesonSci) Chinese artificial sun sets new world record
Xinhua
29 May 2021, 02:18 GMT+10
HEFEI, May 28 (Xinhua) Chinese scientists have set a new world record of achieving a plasma temperature of 120 million degrees Celsius for a period of 101 seconds in the latest experiment on Friday, a key step toward the test running of a fusion reactor.
The breakthrough was announced by Gong Xianzu, a researcher at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP), who is in charge of the experiment conducted in Hefei, capital of east China s Anhui Province.
The experiment at the experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST), or the Chinese artificial sun, also realized a plasma temperature of 160 million degrees Celsius, lasting for 20 seconds.
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