In a ‘never-before’ scenario, a man-made sun experiment in China has successfully produced long pulse plasma discharge at a staggeringly high temperature of more than 50 million degrees. At such high temperatures, this is the longest ever discharge produced.
The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, an artificial sun experiment developed by Hefei Institute of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Science, realized an ultra-high temperature (UHT) long pulse plasma discharge for 102 seconds as of January.
It is to be noted that the light and heat of the sun come from two of the radioactive isotopes of hydrogen which are deuterium and tritium. These two isotopes while fusing into a helium atom release a huge amount of energy.
The artificial sun basically tries to imitate this same process of fusion. Xu Jiannan, from the China Academy of Engineering Physics, expresses: “An artificial sun can provide limitless clean energy through controlled thermonuclear fusion.”
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Author: Technology and Beyond
