China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks record, marking latest milestone in quest for efficient thermonuclear fusion reactors

[Jessica-stormlover]

China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks record, marking latest milestone in quest for efficient thermonuclear fusion reactors

China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks record in milestone for fusion reactors

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak in the city of Hefei generates and sustains plasma for nearly seven minutes – four times as long as previous record.

www.scmp.com

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak generates and sustains plasma for nearly seven minutes – four times as long as its previous record
It uses powerful magnetic fields to confine super-hot plasma, forcing hydrogen to combine into heavier atoms and releasing energy in the process

China’s “artificial sun” set a world record on Wednesday night by generating and maintaining extremely hot, highly confined plasma for nearly seven minutes.

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) in the city of Hefei in eastern China generated and sustained plasma for 403 seconds, breaking its previous record of 101 seconds in 2017 and marking another key step towards building high-efficiency, low-cost thermonuclear fusion reactors.

“The main significance of this new breakthrough lies in its ‘high-confinement mode’, under which the temperature and density of the plasma increase significantly,” said Song Yuntao, director of the Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which built EAST.

I think China will probably have the first functioning fusion reactor.

 

[multivita-man]

China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks record, marking latest milestone in quest for efficient thermonuclear fusion reactors

China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks record in milestone for fusion reactors

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak in the city of Hefei generates and sustains plasma for nearly seven minutes – four times as long as previous record.

www.scmp.com

I think China will probably have the first functioning fusion reactor.

Oh wow, a prototype that went for a whole 7 minutes.

 

[excalibur]

More fusion BS.

 

[MarathonMike]

Oh great, so the country that messes with killer viruses they can't control thinks they can control nuclear fusion.

 

[Unkotare]

Believe that if you want to, but..........

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks record, marking latest milestone in quest for efficient thermonuclear fusion reactors

China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks record in milestone for fusion reactors

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak in the city of Hefei generates and sustains plasma for nearly seven minutes – four times as long as previous record.

www.scmp.com

I think China will probably have the first functioning fusion reactor.

The problem that these articles barely mention or completely ignore is that way more energy is going into these systems than the output.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Oh wow, a prototype that went for a whole 7 minutes.

This is how progress works. How can you not know these things?

 

[multivita-man]

This is how progress works. How can you not know these things?

That is true but by the time fusion is feasible, civilization will have likely already collapsed.