Posted on 01/03/2022 6:29:54 PM PST by algore
The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) in Hefei in the east Chinese province of Anhui reports a new temperature record. At the end of last year, a plasma temperature of 70 million ° C could be maintained in the experimental nuclear fusion reactor for 1056 seconds, i.e. a good 17 minutes, reports the Institute for Plasma Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP). That is the longest time in which such a temperature could be kept constant.
This creates a solid basis for further research into energy generation from nuclear fusion, writes the ASIPP. Its general director Prof. Yuntao Song believes that the perfect ASIPP team will face any difficulty, no matter how difficult it is.
In May, the research team was able to maintain a plasma temperature of 120 million ° C for 101 seconds in the superconducting reactor of the tokamak type in an experiment, and the Chinese news agency Xinhua reported 160 million ° C for 20 seconds. An important step at the EAST is to be able to maintain a temperature of over 100 million ° C for a week. China participates in ITER
EAST is working on the international nuclear fusion project ITER in Cadarache in southern France. In addition to China, the EU, Japan, the USA, Russia, South Korea and India are involved in the project. The knowledge gained in China should help in southern France. In addition, the ASIPP is sending teams of experts to Cadarache, for example in the first quarter of 2021 when it came to installing the 330-ton PF6 field coil for the floor of the ITER, which was also manufactured in China.
It’s mind blowing, isn’t it. I’m just amazed that they can generate, and contain that much heat.
And if it escapes containment, then what.
Who did they steal this from ?
They’re not stating the plasma density.
Will this be a new movie? US Syndrome
And is it a dry heat?
160 million ° C ,I smell overheated Bull Crap
Is that enough to kill the covid?
You won’t have to worry about catching the latest Covid strain if you’re standing near by.
Ridiculous to believe anything the chicoms say
Beginning to sound like the USSR pronouncements where they were always producing some amazing technological marvel or discovery - except they really weren’t.
Wonder about the density.
But its a dry heat so it isn’t that bad.
CERN reached 9.9 Trillion degrees back in 2012 ....
What a load of quark-gluon
Rut Roh!
ping
Pull enough of a vacuum, and anybody can have 70 million degrees for 17 minutes. The Chinese don’t have a chance. They’ll have fusion five years after the West.
They’ll burn their fingers
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