
Chinese team makes unexpected fusion breakthrough
WiredThe march to sustainable nuclear fusion appears to have made serious progress, after a Chinese research group said it sustained a superheated plasma gas at 49.99 million degrees C for more than a minute. The Chinese team have been able, it seems, to demonstrate new techniques for increasing that time significantly, and hope to increase even that record by a factor of 10 in the next few years. Nuclear fusion would involve using massive amounts of energy to creation a fusion reaction, and sustaining that reaction for long enough to get more energy out than was put in at the start. The implications of true nuclear fusion remain extraordinary; the ultimate goal is a new form of clean, cheap, sustainable nuclear power, which would not require the use of extremely rare elements.
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