China is advancing by leaps and bounds in its search for a fusion reactor. The country turned on a powerful artificial sun, which reached 403 seconds on, which is a world record.
The Experimental Tokamak Advanced Superconductor (EAST), managed by the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, achieved steady-state high-confinement long-plasma operation.
According to the CGTN portal, the breakthrough was achieved after more than 120 thousand shots. EAST held the previous record of 101 seconds, set in 2017.
“The main importance of this advance lies in high confinement mode. said Song Yuntao, director of the institute.
“The high confinement plasma operation,” added Yuntao, “significantly increased the temperature and density of the particles, laying the foundation for future fusion power plants to generate more electricity cheaply and efficiently.”
Yuntao said the effort laid a solid foundation to improve the technological and financial viability of fusion reactors.
What does the artificial sun created by China work with?
China’s artificial sun it uses virtually unlimited raw elements on Earth, such as magnetic fields. It is an interesting alternative to fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas.
For China, being able to develop a fusion reactor it will represent a safe and clean form of energy.
Currently, the engineering design of China’s future fusion engineering test reactor has been completed, considered the artificial sun of the next generation. The goal is to build the world’s first fusion demonstration reactor.
EAST has been in operation since 2006, and has served as an open test platform for Chinese and foreign scientists to experiment with fusion-related research.
