Latest advance energizes nuclear fusion efforts

A photo taken by a time dilation gated framing camera shows the nuclear reaction process. Scientists at China's large-scale tokamak facility for controlled nuclear fusion, Huanliu-3, have made a significant breakthrough with the development of an advanced magnetic field structure, according to the China National Nuclear Corporation. The magnetic field structure marks an important advance in the operational capabilities of magnetic confinement nuclear fusion devices. Now, 10 months after that milestone, the research teams at China Huanliu-3 have made further achievements in the same technological direction, which not only pushes China's technology further ahead, but also means progress for the whole of humankind considering that the team signed an agreement with the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor based in Cadarache, France in December 2023, opening the facility to the whole world and inviting global experts to cooperate for a joint solution to the world's energy problem. As early as the 1950s when mankind's first H-bomb exploded, there were predictions that it would take 50 years for nuclear fusion, which is the main reaction in the H-bomb explosion process, to be controllable for civilian use providing an ultimate solution to mankind's need for energy.