{"id":84751,"date":"2018-11-15T04:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T12:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/fusion-breakthrough-as-chinas-artificial-sun-reaches-100-million-degrees"},"modified":"2018-11-15T04:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T12:22:23","slug":"fusion-breakthrough-as-chinas-artificial-sun-reaches-100-million-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/fusion-breakthrough-as-chinas-artificial-sun-reaches-100-million-degrees","title":{"rendered":"Fusion breakthrough as China\u2019s \u201cartificial sun\u201d reaches 100 million degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fusion-breakthrough-as-chinas-artificial-sun-reaches-100-million-degrees.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The day of clean, limitless energy from nuclear fusion has taken another step closer thanks to China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/china-fusion-reactor-plasma\/41729\/\" target=\"_blank\">Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak<\/a> (EAST). During a four-month experiment, the \u201cChinese artificial sun\u201d reached a core plasma temperature of over 100 million degrees Celsius \u2013 that\u2019s more than six times hotter than the interior of the Sun \u2013 and a heating power of 10 MW, enabling the study of various aspects of practical nuclear fusion in the process.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/fusion-china-artificial-sun-east\/57237\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/fusion-china-artificial-sun-east\/57237\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day of clean, limitless energy from nuclear fusion has taken another step closer thanks to China\u2019s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST). During a four-month experiment, the \u201cChinese artificial sun\u201d reached a core plasma temperature of over 100 million degrees Celsius \u2013 that\u2019s more than six times hotter than the interior of the Sun \u2013 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84751","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}