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Seaman Boatswain Mate Bethany Whitaker from HMAS Ballarat fires a flare to use as a target during a night firing exercise with a 12.7mm M2 Heavy Machine Gun in the Indian Ocean during the Regional Presence Deployment 2021.
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Technology & Innovation
Title

China's $1 trillion 'artificial sun' fusion reactor just got five times hotter than the sun

Author
Ben Turner
Date of article release
12-January-2022
9 min

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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.

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Learn more about China's East Tokamak fusion reactor.

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