Chinas nuclear fusion reactor, which serves as an artificial sun, set a new world record after operating at 126 million degrees Fahrenheit (70 million degrees Celsius) for 1056 seconds or more than 17 minutes, and this record, which was set on December 30, represents the longest period Commissioning of an experimental advanced superconducting tokamak fusion power reactor.
According to the British newspaper, “Daily Mail”, nuclear fusion energy works by colliding heavy hydrogen atoms to form helium, releasing huge amounts of energy, simulating the process that occurs naturally in the centers of stars such as our sun.
The discovery was announced by Gong Xianzhu, a researcher with the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who is responsible for the experiment conducted in the capital of east Chinas Anhui Province.
“We achieved a plasma temperature of 120 million degrees Celsius for 101 seconds in an experiment in the first half of 2021,” Chianzu said.
“This time, the steady-state plasma process lasted for 1,056 seconds at a temperature close to 70 million degrees Celsius, which laid a solid scientific and experimental basis for the operation of the fusion reactor,” Chianzu added.
China says its reactor is designed to replicate the naturally occurring nuclear fusion process in the sun and stars to provide nearly unlimited clean energy.
The reactor is located in east Chinas Anhui Province and was completed in late 2020, and is often called an artificial sun because of the tremendous heat and energy it produces.
Fusion power plants are also set to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the power generation sector, which is one of the main sources of these emissions globally.
And fusion could eventually combat climate change by replacing energy sources that emit greenhouse gases, such as coal and gas.
Chinese scientists plan to use the nuclear fusion reactor in cooperation with scientists in France working on the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). The Provence-based ITER project is expected to start providing power in 2035, and will become the largest reactor in the world once completed.
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