Chinese scientists sustain plasma at 100 million degrees C for 1,066 seconds in EAST, advancing nuclear fusion research.

A tokamak is an artificial sun system in the ... The startup process requires a strong electric field, similar to the principle of lightning, but this electric field also leads to the generation ...

What is a tokamak? A tokamak is an experimental machine devised to control the energy of fusion. Inside a tokamak, the wall ...

China's "artificial sun"—formally known as the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), and based in Hefei—maintained steady-state, high-confinement plasma operation for 17 ...

Record breaker: The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak based in Hefei, China, has sustained a high-pressure plasma for over 1000 seconds (Courtesy: Hefei Institute of Physical Science) A ...

The Globus-M2 spherical tokamak that Bakharev his team are working on may be an important first step towards this goal. Tokamaks confine plasma – a hot, ionized gas – using magnetic fields ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday visited the International Thermonuclear ...

Japan’s JT-60SA fusion reactor project announced first plasma in October of this year to denote the successful upgrades to what is now the world’s largest operational, superconducting tokamak ...