{"id":134651,"date":"2022-01-25T09:23:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/chinas-artificial-sun-achieved-record-breaking-temperatures-and-developed-a-moon-simulator"},"modified":"2022-01-25T09:23:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:23:03","slug":"chinas-artificial-sun-achieved-record-breaking-temperatures-and-developed-a-moon-simulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/chinas-artificial-sun-achieved-record-breaking-temperatures-and-developed-a-moon-simulator","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s \u201cartificial sun\u201d achieved record-breaking temperatures and developed a moon simulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-artificial-sun-achieved-record-breaking-temperatures-and-developed-a-moon-simulator2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s artificial sun reached 158 million degrees Fahrenheit for 17 minutes and 36 seconds. (Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons) <\/p>\n<p>China set a ground-breaking record with its \u201cartificial sun,\u201d which superheated plasma to temperatures five times hotter than the sun. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) nuclear fusion reactor reached 158 million degrees Fahrenheit for 1,056 seconds (17 minutes, 36 seconds). This latest breakthrough brings the country one step closer toward its goal for unlimited clean fusion energy.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s EAST surpassed France\u2019s Tore Supra tokamak record, set in 2003 when it superheated plasma in its coiling loop to identical temperatures for 390 seconds. Also, in May 2021, EAST set another record by running at 216 million F for 101 seconds. The fusion reactor achieved a peak temperature of 288 million Fahrenheit for 20 seconds during this experiment. In comparison, the sun\u2019s core reaches approximately 27 million Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s artificial sun reached 158 million degrees Fahrenheit for 17 minutes and 36 seconds. (Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons) China set a ground-breaking record with its \u201cartificial sun,\u201d which superheated plasma to temperatures five times hotter than the sun. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) nuclear fusion reactor reached 158 million degrees Fahrenheit for 1,056 seconds [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134651","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\/134651","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=134651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}