{"id":131243,"date":"2021-11-25T20:23:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T04:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/a-south-korean-artificial-sun-reactor-just-broke-a-nuclear-fusion-record"},"modified":"2021-11-25T20:23:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T04:23:21","slug":"a-south-korean-artificial-sun-reactor-just-broke-a-nuclear-fusion-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/a-south-korean-artificial-sun-reactor-just-broke-a-nuclear-fusion-record","title":{"rendered":"A South Korean Artificial Sun Reactor Just Broke a Nuclear Fusion Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L5XVQuA0Mto?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re a step closer to limitless energy. The Korea Institute of Fusion Energy has set a new record by running at one million degrees and maintaining super-hot plasma for 30 seconds, beating its own previous record by 10 seconds, a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/energy\/kstar-fusion-reactor-record-30-second-plasma\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">report by <em>New Atlas<\/em><\/a> reveals.<\/p>\n<p>The tokamak reactor used for the record run is the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR), which is also known as South Korea\u2019s artificial sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re a step closer to limitless energy. The Korea Institute of Fusion Energy has set a new record by running at one million degrees and maintaining super-hot plasma for 30 seconds, beating its own previous record by 10 seconds, a report by New Atlas reveals. The tokamak reactor used for the record run is the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131243","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}