{"id":117725,"date":"2020-12-28T18:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T02:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/south-koreas-artificial-sun-just-set-a-new-world-record-for-high-temperature-plasma"},"modified":"2020-12-28T18:23:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T02:23:47","slug":"south-koreas-artificial-sun-just-set-a-new-world-record-for-high-temperature-plasma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/south-koreas-artificial-sun-just-set-a-new-world-record-for-high-temperature-plasma","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s \u2018Artificial Sun\u2019 Just Set a New World Record For High-Temperature Plasma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/south-koreas-artificial-sun-just-set-a-new-world-record-for-high-temperature-plasma2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have just set a new world record for high-temperature sustained plasma with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/KSTAR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research<\/a> (KSTAR) device, reaching an ion temperature of above 100 million degrees Celsius (180 million degrees Fahrenheit) for a period of 20 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Known as Korea\u2019s \u201cartificial sun\u201d, the KSTAR uses magnetic fields to generate and stabilise ultra-hot plasma, with the ultimate aim of making <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fusion_power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nuclear fusion power<\/a> a reality \u2013 a potentially unlimited source of clean energy that could transform the way we power our lives, if we can get it to work as intended.<\/p>\n<p>Before this point, 100 million degrees hadn\u2019t been breached for more than 10 seconds, so it\u2019s a substantial improvement on previous efforts \u2013 even if there\u2019s still a long way to go before we can completely ditch other sources of energy. At this point, nuclear fusion power <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nuclear-fusion-startup-claims-it-s-on-the-way-to-providing-unlimited-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">remains a possibility<\/a>, not a certainty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have just set a new world record for high-temperature sustained plasma with the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) device, reaching an ion temperature of above 100 million degrees Celsius (180 million degrees Fahrenheit) for a period of 20 seconds. Known as Korea\u2019s \u201cartificial sun\u201d, the KSTAR uses magnetic fields to generate and stabilise [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}