{"id":133671,"date":"2022-01-06T19:23:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T03:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/chinas-1-trillion-artificial-sun-fusion-reactor-just-got-five-times-hotter-than-the-sun"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:23:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T03:23:53","slug":"chinas-1-trillion-artificial-sun-fusion-reactor-just-got-five-times-hotter-than-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/chinas-1-trillion-artificial-sun-fusion-reactor-just-got-five-times-hotter-than-the-sun","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s $1 trillion \u2018artificial sun\u2019 fusion reactor just got five times hotter than the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-1-trillion-artificial-sun-fusion-reactor-just-got-five-times-hotter-than-the-sun.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Chinese experimental nuclear fusion reactor smashed the previous record, set by France\u2019s Tore Supra tokamak in 2003, where plasma in a coiling loop remained at similar temperatures for 390 seconds. EAST had previously set another record in May 2021 by running for 101 seconds at an unprecedented 216 million F (120 million C). The core of the actual sun, by contrast, reaches temperatures of around 27 million F (15 million C).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/sci-fi-concepts-real-life\" target=\"_blank\" tabindex=\"0\" hasenterkeydown=\"1\"><strong>5 sci-fi concepts that are possible (in theory)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recent operation lays a solid scientific and experimental foundation towards the running of a fusion reactor,\u201d experiment leader Gong Xianzu, a researcher at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/20211231\/c4fad387ef0745c18aedee05eed1414d\/c.html\" target=\"_blank\" tabindex=\"0\" hasenterkeydown=\"1\">said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese experimental nuclear fusion reactor smashed the previous record, set by France\u2019s Tore Supra tokamak in 2003, where plasma in a coiling loop remained at similar temperatures for 390 seconds. EAST had previously set another record in May 2021 by running for 101 seconds at an unprecedented 216 million F (120 million C). The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133671","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=133671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}