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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
KEY POINTS:
- Could help to create endless cheap, clean energy.
- The tokamak is a device that 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.
- Scientists have been trying to create nuclear fusion based on the way stars burn for over seventy years.
