[Abathar]

"It will require a total investment of nearly 300 million yuan (37 million U.S. dollars), only one fifteenth to one twentieth the cost of similar devices being developed in the other parts of the world."

I don't think I would want to be living in the hut next to this when they light it off, I firmly believe the old addage "You get what you pay for."

[babyface00]

If a device is developed that can withstand temperatures as high as 100 million Celsius degrees and control a deuterium-tritium reaction

Well, if that's all there is to it, what's taking so long?

[FreedomNeocon]

Silver Lining.... about time the ChiComs / Ruskies spend the dough and develop someting we can STEAL from than, after the decades of them leeching off of us.

[bvw]

So China's bought into that perrennial money-pit of big science.

[johnandrhonda]

Gee, this is very good news...all of the worlds energy problems solved for only $37 million...AS IF

[from occupied ga]

clean nuclear-fusion-based energy, .....and an enormous amount of energy can be obtained from a deuterium-tritium fusion reaction

A total lie right here. Deuterium/tritium is NOT clean it produces an extra neutron that goes on to transmute all sorts of nasty isotopes in the surrounding structure.

[Paul Ross]

This shows that the artificially extreme low wages enforced throughout China is now giving the CCCP the ability to push the envelope of major scientific frontiers...faster than we currently are.

High-energy phsyics is only the visible tip of the iceberg here...one where they wish to broadcast their achievement (prospectively) and brag. Other areas where with great progress apparently are nano-technology, where they are more discreet and secretive in their successes...due to the strategic and military implications for reversing the playing field advantages we take for granted.

[Nihil Obstat]

Chinese... artificial sun... fusion reactor 1/15th the cost of similar devices...

what could possibly go wrong?

[bill1952]

Tokamak fusion device

Whats new about that concept? - Seems I remember some departments at Bell Labs working on parts of that back in the 70s.

There are HUGE engineering obstacles to overcome.

They can throw 37 trillion at it, for all the good that it will do.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

They had one of those things in the movie, SPIDERMAN 2.

Very dangerous.

Maybe the great leader of North Korea will be on hand just in case something goes wrong.

Superheroes are rare on this side of the planet!!

[Sam Cree]

I don't see how that can call it a sun, if it's not up in the sky. Otherwise, it sounds very interesting.

[Mrs. Shawnlaw]

Hasn't there been a few Bond movies about this?

[Vaquero]

now all that will be needed is to scale then down for warp drives and ones own personal 'Mr. Fusion' units.

[steve-b]

Looks like somebody already invented it.

[mbynack]

The good news is that they've developed an infinite, low cost power source. The bad news is that they've ignited the earth's atmosphere and incinerated the whole planet. Every major science advance has its little drawbacks.

[r9etb]

I don't think I would want to be living in the hut next to this when they light it off

The Chinese have not shown themselves to be overly concerned about such things. For example, there is a village just downrange from their rocket launch facililty that gets hit by flaming debris from launch failures....

[SlowBoat407]

Hey, imperialistic running dog lackeys of capitalist pigs, we got us some free energ....

[GSlob]

You are familiar with the cheap "made in China" toys, aren't you?

[longtermmemmory]

brilliant marketing.

The hippie crowd will not really be able to confuse nuclear fussion with fission reactors.

Its a warm and fuzzy "sun" reactor.