China maintains artificial sun at 120 million Celsius for over 100 seconds, setting new world record
Shen Weiduo Published: May 28, 2021 05:20 PM
Thermo image of inside of the artificial sun fusion reactor Photo: screenshot of Xinhua
China broke the record by keeping the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) by achieving plasma temperature at 120 million Celsius for 101 seconds and 160 million Celsius for 20 seconds, a major step toward the test run of the fusion reactor.
The Tokamak devise is located at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is designed to replicate the nuclear fusion process that occurs naturally in the sun and stars to provide almost infinite clean energy through controlled nuclear fusion, which is often dubbed the artificial sun.
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