Scientists testing China’s trillion-dollar ‘artificial sun’ have underlined its potential to advance nuclear fusion, ...

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) – also called ‘artificial sun’ – has achieved the milestone of 1,006 seconds of operations for sustained plasma temperature above 180 million ...

The temperature was achieved in China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) nuclear fusion reactor. The reactor recently achieved a sustained temperature of 70 million degrees Celsius ...

Scientists just set a new record in attempts to create an 'artificial Sun' down here on planet Earth. The team behind the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) in China kept their ...

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak achieved a remarkable scientific milestone by maintaining steady-state high-confinement plasma operation for an impressive 1,066 seconds. The ...

The race to recreate the sun’s power on Earth just hit a major milestone. Scientists operating a powerful fusion reactor, often nicknamed China’s “artificial sun,” set a world record that’s turning ...

A tokamak operated by the French Atomic Energy Commission was able to maintain a high temperature plasma for more than 22 minutes earlier this year, smashing the previous record and bringing ...

Nuclear fusion has been the holy grail of energy for decades now, but even its most ardent proponents will admit that it isn’t going to be commercialized any time soon. While it is undoubtedly still a ...

A new mode of improved plasma confinement has been demonstrated at the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences announced.