Chinese Scientists have managed to create searing plasma by heating hydrogen gas three times hotter than our Sun’s core. In short, scientists were able to make a nuclear reactor plasma which reached a temperature of 50 million Kelvins.

This was back in February and they managed to keep the fusion alive for an entire minute. According to the statement on the institute’s website on Wednesday, the temperature was “roughly the same as the mid-sized thermonuclear explosion”.

The aim of this experiment is to create an exact copy of nuclear fusion happening deep within the Sun’s core. China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor create a hot ionized gas which is known as plasma (where atoms were fused together to create massive amount of energy). The complete process is somehow different from nuclear fission where atoms are divided instead of merging together.

This achievement makes China one step closer to the practical fusion power. As reported by en.people.cn, the whole experiment was conducted using China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) which is housed at the institute of Plasma Physics in Hefei.

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Author: Technology and Beyond