Just seven months after it announced a milestone record for plasma fusion, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has absolutely smashed it.
a roiling loop of plasma superheated to 120 million degrees Celsius for a gobsmacking 1,056 seconds, the Institute of Plasma Physics reports.This also beats the previous record for plasma confinement of 390 seconds, set by the Tore Supra tokamak in France in 2003. reactor is a significant advance for fusion experimentation in the pursuit of fusion energy.would change the world, but it's incredibly challenging to accomplish.
This generates a tremendous amount of energy – enough to power a star – and scientists are striving to harness the same process here on Earth. Obviously, there's a significant challenge in creating the heat and pressure that we find in the heart of a star, and there are different technologies to address them.In a tokamak, plasma is superheated, and confined in the shape of a torus, or donut, by powerful magnetic fields.
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