China's 'artificial sun' achieves breakthrough
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A Chinese tokamak device has set a new world record for a steady-state high-constraint mode plasma operation and German researchers have discovered a way to build smaller and cheaper fusion reactors. Meanwhile a US Government Accountability Office report on achieving commercial fusion cautions that several challenges must still be overcome.
Beijing, April 13: The experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST), or the Chinese artificial sun, has achieved a steady-state high confinement plasma operation for 403 seconds, a key step toward the development of a fusion reactor.
Now researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) have found a way to significantly reduce this distance. This could make it possible to build smaller and cheaper fusion reactor ...
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