China's 'artificial sun' set a new world record on Thursday by running for 1056 seconds at high plasma temperature, the longest duration for an experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST) fusion energy reactor, Xinhua News Agency reported.
EAST already scored a previous record in May, running for 101 seconds at a temperature of 120 million degrees Celsius.
Looks like the previous record was set by the same team earlier last year but the difference is they were running at higher tempratures. This is running at lower temperatures but for a much longer period of time, probably for research.
Looks like the previous record was set by the same team earlier last year but the difference is they were running at higher tempratures. This is running at lower temperatures but for a much longer period of time, probably for research.