{"id":131259,"date":"2021-11-25T23:26:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T07:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/koreas-cutting-edge-fusion-reactor-just-broke-its-own-record-for-containing-plasma"},"modified":"2021-11-25T23:26:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T07:26:37","slug":"koreas-cutting-edge-fusion-reactor-just-broke-its-own-record-for-containing-plasma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/koreas-cutting-edge-fusion-reactor-just-broke-its-own-record-for-containing-plasma","title":{"rendered":"Korea\u2019s Cutting-Edge Fusion Reactor Just Broke Its Own Record For Containing Plasma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/koreas-cutting-edge-fusion-reactor-just-broke-its-own-record-for-containing-plasma3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barely a year after the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/south-korea-s-artificial-sun-just-set-a-new-world-record-for-high-temperature-plasma\">broke one record for fusion<\/a>, it\u2019s smashed it again, this time holding onto a churning whirlpool of 100 million degree plasma for a whole 30 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Though it\u2019s well short of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/china-s-artificial-sun-fusion-reactor-reached-another-milestone\">the 101 seconds<\/a> set by the Chinese Academy of Sciences earlier this year, it remains a significant milestone on the road to cleaner, near-limitless energy that could transform how we power our society.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s why it\u2019s so important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barely a year after the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) broke one record for fusion, it\u2019s smashed it again, this time holding onto a churning whirlpool of 100 million degree plasma for a whole 30 seconds. Though it\u2019s well short of the 101 seconds set by the Chinese Academy of Sciences earlier this year, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131259","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}