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China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ Smashes Nuclear Fusion Record
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China’s “artificial sun” has reached a new milestone in the rapidly advancing field of nuclear fusion. On April 12, a superhot fusion plasma was generated, sustained and confined for 403 seconds, bringing commercial-scale fusion energy one step closer to reality, national media reported.
Nuclear fusion creates energy in the same way as our sun. The process involves the smashing together of two atoms with such force that they combine into a single, larger atom, releasing huge amounts of energy in the process.
Unlike nuclear fission—the nuclear reaction that is currently used in the energy sector—fusion does not create radioactive waste. It produces three to four times more energy than fission and does not release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, unlike burning fossil fuels. Fusion is also a very fragile process that will shut down in a fraction of a second if the correct conditions are not maintained. Therefore, there is no risk of nuclear meltdown from this reaction.
However, there is one problem: fusion requires vast amounts of energy to achieve the required temperature and pressure for the reaction to take place. As a result, scientists have not yet managed to get significantly more energy out of a fusion reaction than they put in.
Researchers around the world are working to overcome these challenges, increasing the efficiency of the process on multiple fronts to bring the dream of clean, almost limitless fusion energy to life.
China’s “artificial sun,” officially known as the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), does this by containing the reaction in an enormous, donut-shaped contraption called a tokamak.
A tokamak is a donut-shaped contraption that uses powerful magnets to contain a circular flow of super-hot plasma. Plasma—sometimes referred to as the fourth state of matter—is created when atoms are heated to such high temperatures that they are torn apart, resulting in a soup of negatively charged electrons and positively charged ions.
These positively charged ions will usually repel each other but, in the sun, a high pressure is created by its intense gravitational forces that thrust the ions together and overcome this repulsion. However, on Earth it is nearly impossible to replicate this, so the plasma must be heated even more, to temperatures roughly six times hotter than the center of the sun or more.
To maintain these superhot temperatures, the plasma must be contained in a small area, which is where the magnets come in. “Essentially, you’ve got a system of very large magnets,” Tony Langtry, head of engineering at U.K.-based fusion company Tokamak Energy, previously told Newsweek. “The field needed to control the plasma is generated by passing huge currents through some big conductors.
“As the current goes through these conductors they generate magnetic fields, and since the plasma also has a current, it reacts to, and can be controlled by, these fields.”
In the past, metals like copper were used to create these magnets. However, when a current is passed through these conventional materials, their structure will resist the flow of electricity, meaning that some of the energy put in will be wasted.
One of the features that allows EAST to reach and maintain high temperatures efficiently is its use of superconducting magnets. Superconductors are materials that produce zero resistance and no waste heat under the right conditions.
Companies like Tokamak Energy are working to develop the next generation of superconductors that work even more efficiently at these higher temperatures.
While EAST—which is located at the Institute of Plasma Physics, under the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Hefei—has previously sustained a plasma for a longer period, the recent record of 403 seconds is significant because of the state in which these particles were kept.
Song Yuntao, the director of the Chinese Academy of Science’s Institute of Plasma Physics, said that the plasma had been sustained in a “high-confinement” mode, which supports a higher temperature and particle density and lays the foundation for more efficient power generation.
This achievement breaks the reactor’s previous record for steady-state high confinement plasma, which was set in 2017 at 101 seconds.
Describing the success, Tokamak Energy’s co-founder and executive vice chairman, David Kingham, told Newsweek: “This is another significant achievement in fusion, made possible using superconducting magnets. Long pulse durations with short intervals between pulses are needed for sustained high power output in fusion power plants.”
According to Tim Bestwick, the chief technology officer for the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority, extending the time for a sustained and controlled plasma like this involves three things: “Having machines that can run for extended periods; being able to deliver sustained heating power into the plasma; and being able to monitor and control the plasma.”
EAST began operations in 2006 and has contributed to the 35-year collaboration between China, the EU, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia, the U.K. and the U.S. to develop and optimize the world’s largest tokamak machine, ITER, which is currently under construction in France. ITER is expected to produce its first plasma at the end of 2025, with full-scale operations beginning in 2035.
“China has an active fusion program, and is extensively involved in the highly collaborative international ITER program,” Bestwick told Newsweek. “This result demonstrates welcome progress in the field.”
72 Comments on "China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ Smashes Nuclear Fusion Record"
timmytips on Tue, 25th Apr 2023 1:01 pm
It will never be powerful until they install the Blue LEDs around it. It must glow blue, everyone knows that
Dredd on Thu, 27th Apr 2023 1:26 pm
Is “China’s ‘Artificial Sun’” a metaphor such as “The Sun of god” … you know … just another “Peak Jesus” (The Peak of “Jesus”)?
Theedrich on Thu, 27th Apr 2023 7:58 pm
“Inclusivity” is the woke word for “abnormality.” The sociopathic billionaires love it, since they know nothing of evolution and in fact they want biological regression to the level of the chimpanzee. Their accomplices include the academic elites and Congress, whose only interest is more bribe money. Ditto the idiot-savant cyberlords and deranged Hollywood moguls. Furthermore, the military-industrial-Congressional complex is diabolically obsessed with acquiring more $trillions from the taxable masses and the printing presses, future consequences of national bankruptcy notwithstanding. (Just listen to any retired American general on the “need” for more weaponry and cannon fodder — to save “democracy” and ever-fluctuating “American interests,” of course.)
To achieve the New Millennium of the globalist billionaires, it is first necessary to destroy Western civilization, by war and chaos if and wherever necessary. Hence the “Open Society” sadists now running the U.S. governments; after the annihilation, they assure us they will “build back better.” and the mentally disintegrating masses believe and support them.
But the wages of sin are death.
𝖁𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖆𝖘 𝖑𝖎𝖇𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖇𝖎𝖙 𝖛𝖔𝖘.
Theedrich on Thu, 27th Apr 2023 8:10 pm
“Inclusivity” = “abnormality” in Woke-Speak.
Theedrich on Fri, 28th Apr 2023 8:52 am
In WokeSpeak, “inclusivity” means abnormality. Zillionaire-supported Democrat politicians posing as churchgoers and templegoers are in fact sociopathic nihilists of Satanic persuasion. Accordingly, the American nation they control is a global monster spreading death and repression as “democracy” and “progress.” The planet cannot endure much longer if this gigantic hypocritical viper succeeds in its genocidal aggression.
𝖁𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖆𝖘 𝖑𝖎𝖇𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖇𝖎𝖙 𝖛𝖔𝖘.
Theedrich on Fri, 28th Apr 2023 8:55 am
“Inclusivity” means abnormality in WokeSpeak.
Theedrich on Fri, 28th Apr 2023 4:45 pm
Dem Congresswomen menstruate through the mouth. No menopause. The “squad,” Pelosi, &c. are primary examples. All, probably after getting the go-ahead from honcho Chuck Schumer. Your tax dollars at work.
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Dredd on Sat, 29th Apr 2023 2:19 pm
Is AI woke (The Machine Religion – 5)?
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Theedrich on Wed, 3rd May 2023 6:44 pm
The Ukroids still enjoy murdering civilians in Donyetzk (Доне́цк) city. They have been doing this since 2014, and murder of defenseless non-compatants seems to send them into orgasm. Biden and his European vassals, of course, love it too. We can expect nothing honest or civilized from any of these animals.
A drone has attacked the Moscow Kremlin. It was shot down before hitting the buildings. Professional American liar and U. S. Secretary of State claimed that it was a Russian “false-flag” operation meant as a pretext to justify forthcoming Russian attacks on Ukraine. Ukrainian propaganda, denying any Kievan connection with the attack, claimed that Russian oligarchs who hate Putin were responsible. We might next expect the U.S. and its NATO vassals to say the drone came from six guys and a boat in the Moscow river. Anyone can invent his or her own tale about it, just so long as Ukraine and the American cartel are not blamed.
One must not reveal that the attack was orchestrated by the head of the Ukrainian Directorate of Intelligence, Major-general Kiríll Alexyéyevich Budánov (Кири́лл Алексе́евич Буда́нов). This was the the man who planned the killing via a bomb-laden statue of a Russian blogger in St. Petersburg; of a young woman, Dugina, by blowing up the car she was driving; he is the man who was also responsible for Ukroid agents crossing the Russo-Ukrainian border and taking Russian citizens captive; for the derailing of trains in Russia, and various drone attacks on Russian territory; for attacking the airport in Belorussia near Minsk with drones; as well for the terrorist murders of various officials in the Donbass. Budánov is international Ukrainian terrorist #1, and must be disposed of as soon as possible.
Incidentally, it was noteworthy that the 97th battalion of the 60th Mechanized Brigage turned refusenik and refused to follow the Ukroid orders to commit suicide in the meat grinder, and left its position. This will open the way for more Wagnerian advances. The sooner that Ukraine is completely pulverized, the better.
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