Germany Just Successfully Fired Up A Nuclear Fusion Reactor | IFLScience

2 Comments

1. February 12, 2016 at 10:01 am

   Tomi Engdahl says:

   China’s Fusion Reactor Hits Milestone
   http://hackaday.com/2016/02/11/chinas-fusion-reactor-hits-milestone/

   An experimental fusion reactor built by the Chinese Academy of Science has hit a major milestone. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) has maintained a plasma pulse for a record 102 seconds at a temperature of 50 million degrees – three times hotter than the core of the sun.

   The EAST is a tokamak, or a torus that uses superconducting magnets to compress plasma into a thin ribbon where atoms will fuse and energy will be created. For the last fifty years, most research has been dedicated to the study of tokamaks in producing fusion power, but recently several projects have challenged this idea.

   Reply
2. February 12, 2016 at 10:01 am

   Tomi Engdahl says:

   EAST- Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak
   http://english.ipp.cas.cn/rh/east/

   Reply