China just ran an artificial sun for 403 seconds, almost four times the previous world record
China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), also known as the "artificial sun," has set a new world record by generating and maintaining highly confined plasma at extremely hot temperatures for nearly seven minutes.
The previous record was set in 2017 with a time of 101 seconds, but the EAST in the city of Hefei, eastern China, managed to sustain plasma for 403 seconds. This achievement is a significant step towards developing high-efficiency, low-cost thermonuclear fusion reactors, and could improve the technical and economic feasibility of fusion reactors, according to Song Yuntao, director of the Institute of Plasma Physics.
Nuclear fusion is considered a safe, clean, and nearly limitless source of energy, and EAST, which has been conducting experiments since 2006, is a promising path towards controlled nuclear fusion. Song and his team have worked tirelessly to achieve this breakthrough, conducting over 120,000 experiments in the process, and the success is a big step forward for their research, fusion engineering, and project operation and maintenance.
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