Chicago January 28,2025
China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), also known as the “artificial sun,” has achieved a new world record. It maintained a super-hot plasma state for 1,066 seconds, beating its previous record of 403 seconds.
The EAST reactor reached temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius, which is even hotter than the real sun. This achievement is a major milestone in fusion research, which aims to create clean and limitless energy.
The Institute of Plasma Physics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, conducted the experiment. EAST has been a leading research platform since 2006, allowing scientists from around the world to conduct fusion-related experiments.
Other countries, like Korea, are also working on similar projects. Korea’s Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (STAR) device achieved a plasma temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius for 20 seconds in 2020. The race to achieve controlled nuclear fusion continues, with China’s EAST at the forefront.
