New world record! China’s ’artificial sun’ burned five times hotter than real one, for over 17 mins
China’s “artificial sun” set new world record in sustained high temperatures
The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), a nuclear fusion reactor research facility ran at 70 million degrees Celsius for as long as 1,056 seconds, or 17 minutes, 36 seconds)
This comes after EAST achieved a previous milestone in May running at a plasma – or hot gas – temperature of 120 million degrees Celsius for 101 seconds
The facility is called “artificial sun”, because it mimics the nuclear fusion reaction that powers the real Sun which uses hydrogen and deuterium gases as fuel
That is considered the “ultimate energy” for a carbon-neutral energy future, having minimal waste products
Located in central China’s Anhui Province, EAST is part of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) facility a global big science project second only to the International Space Station in size
It is being jointly constructed by China, the EU, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the US
Its success is signi
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