China’s EAST reactor keeps the fire of magnetic fusion burning
1 month, 1 week ago

China’s EAST reactor keeps the fire of magnetic fusion burning

The Hindu  

On January 20, Chinese scientists reported that they were able to maintain a plasma at a temperature of 100 million degrees C for about 1,066 seconds in a nuclear fusion reactor called the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak. By this time physicists also knew that energy is also produced when two atomic nuclei fuse together, a process called fusion. EAST is a testbed reactor for ITER, an international megaproject in which six countries around the world, including India, and the European Union are working together to build a tokamak that will sustain nuclear fusion that releases more energy than that required to sustain the plasma. The desperate need for sources of clean energy means achieving nuclear fusion may just be a matter of time, especially if governments continue to trust the scientists working on the required technologies.

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China is beating America in the nuclear-energy race

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Fusion vs fission: clean, green nuclear energy technologies explained
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