Chinese scientists sustain plasma at 100 million degrees C for 1,066 seconds in EAST, advancing nuclear fusion research.

The tokamak principle will be the foundation for a future reactor in the international project, ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor). It is supposed to become the world’s very ...

A tokamak is an artificial sun system in the ... The startup process requires a strong electric field, similar to the principle of lightning, but this electric field also leads to the generation ...

China's "artificial sun"—formally known as the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), and based in Hefei—maintained steady-state, high-confinement plasma operation for 17 ...

China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor ... Nuclear fusion is the principle by which the sun emits light and heat, involving the combination of lighter atomic nuclei ...

What is a tokamak? A tokamak is an experimental machine devised to control the energy of fusion. Inside a tokamak, the wall ...

Record breaker: The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak based in Hefei, China, has sustained a high-pressure plasma for over 1000 seconds (Courtesy: Hefei Institute of Physical Science) A ...

The Globus-M2 spherical tokamak that Bakharev his team are working on may be an important first step towards this goal. Tokamaks confine plasma – a hot, ionized gas – using magnetic fields ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday visited the International Thermonuclear ...

Japan’s JT-60SA fusion reactor project announced first plasma in October of this year to denote the successful upgrades to what is now the world’s largest operational, superconducting tokamak ...