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China nuclear fusion reactor has beaten the previous record held by a French reactor as to how hot a reactor can run under controlled conditions—China’s reactor ran for over 1000 seconds at 70 million degrees Celsius.Summary
Ben Turner writing for Live Science—described by Media Bias as a pro science online magazine—makes the following points:
- Could help to create endless cheap clean energy.
- EAST is a nuclear fusion reactor.
- The tokamak is a device which uses a powerful magnetic field to confine plasma at very high temperatures.
- This latest experiment points the way to running a fusion reactor full time.
- Government have been trying to create nuclear fusion based on the way stars burn for over seventy years.
- Stars are able to turn matter into heat without producing radioactive waste.
- EAST is attempting to replicate what happens inside stars.
- The world’s largest nuclear reactor ITER (not an acronym but the Latin for ‘The Way’, is currently being built in France by the EU, UK, China, India and the US.
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References from the Web:
- DOE Explains...Tokamaks | Department of Energy
- What is ITER?
- DEC 21 Tokamak Energy Has Just Made a Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion (interestingengineering.com)
- JAN 22 Chinese tokamak facility achieves 120-million-degree C for 1,056 seconds (phys.org)
- JAN 22 Chinese tokamak keeps plasma 2.6 times as hot as the Sun for 17 minutes (newatlas.com)
- JAN 22 Chinese tokamak keeps plasma 2.6 times as hot as the Sun for 17 minutes (newatlas.com)
- JAN 22 Fueled By Billionaire Dollars, Nuclear Fusion Enters A New Age (forbes.com)
Source Information:
- Article Source: Live Science: The Most Interesting Articles, Mysteries & Discoveries
- Media Check: Live Science - Media Bias/Fact Check (mediabiasfactcheck.com)
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