{"id":142527,"date":"2022-07-20T00:22:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T05:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/chinas-artificial-sun-just-broke-a-record-for-longest-sustained-nuclear-fusion"},"modified":"2022-07-20T00:22:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T05:22:37","slug":"chinas-artificial-sun-just-broke-a-record-for-longest-sustained-nuclear-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/chinas-artificial-sun-just-broke-a-record-for-longest-sustained-nuclear-fusion","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Artificial Sun Just Broke a Record for Longest Sustained Nuclear Fusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a new world record, China\u2019s \u201cartificial sun\u201d project has sustained a nuclear fusion reaction for more than 17 minutes, reports Anthony Cuthbertson for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/china-artificial-sun-nuclear-fusion-renewable-b1985795.html\"><em>Independent<\/em><\/a>. In the latest experiment, superheated plasma reached 126 million degrees Fahrenheit\u2014that\u2019s roughly five times hotter than the sun, which radiates a scorching <a href=\"https:\/\/coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu\/ask\/7-How-hot-is-the-Sun-\">10,000 degrees Fahrenheit<\/a> at the surface and about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/nmp\/st5\/SCIENCE\/sun.html\">27 million degrees Fahrenheit<\/a> at its core.<\/p>\n<p>Coal and natural gas are the primary energy sources currently used around the world, but these materials come in limited supply. Nuclear fusion could be the cleanest energy source available because it replicates the sun\u2019s physics by merging atomic nuclei to generate large amounts of energy into electricity. The process requires no fossil fuels, leaves behind no radioactive waste, and is a safer alternative to fission nuclear power, per the <em>Independent<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recent operation lays a solid scientific and experimental foundation towards the running of a fusion reactor,\u201d says 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\">in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new world record, China\u2019s \u201cartificial sun\u201d project has sustained a nuclear fusion reaction for more than 17 minutes, reports Anthony Cuthbertson for the Independent. In the latest experiment, superheated plasma reached 126 million degrees Fahrenheit\u2014that\u2019s roughly five times hotter than the sun, which radiates a scorching 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit at the surface and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142527","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\/142527","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}