A record combination of high temperature and long duration of confinement of a fusion plasma has been achieved by China’s primary fusion power experiment, known as the experimental advanced superconducting tokamak, or EAST, Xinhua and Global Times announced on May 28..
Daily Pakistan wrote on May 29, “As the world advances with fast-paced technological discoveries, China has successfully made a new record which is a league of its own. China’s artificial sun sets a new world record as it achieved a plasma temperature of 120 million degrees Celsius for a period of 101 seconds.
“‘The huge accomplishment is a key step toward the test running of a fusion reactor,’ announced by Gong Xianzu who is a researcher at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP), [and] was in charge of the experiment conducted in Hefei, capital of east China’s Anhui Province.”
