China’s “artificial sun” reaches 120 billion degrees Celsius

The Chinese artificial Sun emulates the solar star’s power generation process and throughout its 15 years of operation, it has never managed to maintain so many degrees Celsius for so long. Researchers working at China’s “artificial Sun” fusion facility – the Advanced Experimental Superconductor Tokamak, or HT-7U, (EAST) – have announced that on December 30, … Read more