{"id":133676,"date":"2022-01-06T21:23:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T05:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/chinas-artificial-sun-just-broke-a-major-world-record-for-plasma-fusion"},"modified":"2022-01-06T21:23:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T05:23:35","slug":"chinas-artificial-sun-just-broke-a-major-world-record-for-plasma-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/chinas-artificial-sun-just-broke-a-major-world-record-for-plasma-fusion","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s \u2018Artificial Sun\u2019 Just Broke a Major World Record For Plasma Fusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-artificial-sun-just-broke-a-major-world-record-for-plasma-fusion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just seven months after it announced a milestone record for plasma fusion, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has absolutely smashed it.<\/p>\n<p>Their \u2018artificial Sun\u2019 tokomak reactor is <a href=\"http:\/\/english.ipp.cas.cn\/syxw\/202112\/t20211231_295485.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has maintained<\/a> a roiling loop of plasma superheated to 120 million degrees Celsius (216 million degrees Fahrenheit) for a gobsmacking 1,056 seconds, the Institute of Plasma Physics reports.<\/p>\n<p>This also beats the previous record for plasma confinement of 390 seconds, set by the Tore Supra tokamak in France in 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just seven months after it announced a milestone record for plasma fusion, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has absolutely smashed it. Their \u2018artificial Sun\u2019 tokomak reactor is has maintained a roiling loop of plasma superheated to 120 million degrees Celsius (216 million degrees Fahrenheit) for a gobsmacking 1,056 seconds, the Institute of Plasma Physics reports. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133676","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\/133676","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=133676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}