{"id":84754,"date":"2018-11-15T06:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T14:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/chinas-artificial-sun-is-now-hot-enough-for-nuclear-fusion"},"modified":"2018-11-15T06:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T14:22:25","slug":"chinas-artificial-sun-is-now-hot-enough-for-nuclear-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/chinas-artificial-sun-is-now-hot-enough-for-nuclear-fusion","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s \u201cArtificial Sun\u201d Is Now Hot Enough for Nuclear Fusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-artificial-sun-is-now-hot-enough-for-nuclear-fusion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tokamaks like EAST could help us do just that. They\u2019re devices that use magnetic fields to control plasma in a way that could support stable nuclear fusion, and it\u2019s this plasma that EAST heated to such an incredible temperature.<\/p>\n<p><b>Going Nuclear<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Not only is EAST\u2019s new plasma temperature milestone remarkable because, wow, it\u2019s really hot, it\u2019s also <a href=\"http:\/\/fusionforenergy.europa.eu\/understandingfusion\/technology.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the minimum temperature<\/a> scientists believe is needed to produce a self-sustaining nuclear fusion reaction on Earth.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-sun-china-temperature-record\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-sun-china-temperature-record\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokamaks like EAST could help us do just that. They\u2019re devices that use magnetic fields to control plasma in a way that could support stable nuclear fusion, and it\u2019s this plasma that EAST heated to such an incredible temperature. Going Nuclear Not only is EAST\u2019s new plasma temperature milestone remarkable because, wow, it\u2019s really hot, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84754","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\/84754","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=84754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}