China Makes Breakthrough in Artificial Sun Research
China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), the man-made sun, has made an important breakthrough by achieving an electron temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius in plasma and running under such a temperature for almost ten seconds, the EAST team announced on Monday. The research team said by using various heating techniques, the heating power reached 10 megawatts, the accumulation energy in plasma increased to 300 kilojoules and the electron temperature reached 100 million degrees Celsius for the first time. The EAST, with a height of 11 meters, a diameter of eight meters and a weight of 400 tons, is aimed at providing clean energy by inducing the deuterium and tritium in seawater to form nuclear fusion under high-temperature conditions. The latest research has provided experimental evidence and scientific support for the ongoing China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) project and laid a solid technical foundation for exploring and using nuclear fusion clean energy, according to the institute.