[BenLurkin]

Coming as this does from Red China, it impossible to give absolute credence on this announcement.

[MrEdd]

Until it becomes uncontained.

[Olog-hai]

Deuterium has the symbol “D”, not “H” (and certainly not a symbol resembling H-squared).

[bgill]

100 million degrees. Another example of just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. What could possibly go wrong.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Stir-fry will never be the same

[Steely Tom]

High temp is nice, but what really matters is the product of temperature, density, and confinement time.

[Dogbert41]

What’s the point of such a high temp when all you need is steam to run the electric generators? Or am I missing something?

[ZinGirl]

Eh...I would still need a light sweater.

[Billthedrill]

Very impressive. Isn’t that as hot as Professor Algore said the center of the earth is?

[Bullish]

Wouldn’t that be hotter than the hottest regions of the Sun? How on earth do they contain something like that?

Fascinating.

[SuperLuminal]

Just to clarify and make this article more understandable:

...it is shown that the ordinary, collisionless trapped-electron mode is stable in large parts of parameter space in stellarators that have been designed so that the parallel adiabatic invariant decreases with radius. Also, the first global, electromagnetic, gyrokinetic stability calculations performed for Wendelstein 7-X suggest that kinetic ballooning modes are more stable than in a typical tokamak.

Tokamak (Soviet) vs Stellarator (American) has been a continuing competition (costing hundreds of billions) since the early 50's & 60's...

[samtheman]

What will be the possible consequences of China getting commercially viable nuclear fusion before we do?