{"id":84859,"date":"2018-11-18T06:42:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T14:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/chinas-artificial-sun-is-now-hot-enough-for-nuclear-fusion-2"},"modified":"2018-11-18T06:42:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T14:42:18","slug":"chinas-artificial-sun-is-now-hot-enough-for-nuclear-fusion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/chinas-artificial-sun-is-now-hot-enough-for-nuclear-fusion-2","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s \u2018artificial sun\u2019 is now hot enough for nuclear fusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TLI9TDEy7Y0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, a team from China\u2019s Hefei Institutes of Physical Science <a href=\"http:\/\/english.hf.cas.cn\/new\/news\/rn\/201811\/t20181113_201186.html\">announced that<\/a> its Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor \u2014 an \u201cartificial sun\u201d designed to replicate the process our natural Sun uses to generate energy \u2014 just hit a new temperature milestone: 100 million degrees Celsius (180 million degrees Fahrenheit).<\/p>\n<p>For comparison, the core of our real Sun only reaches about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17137-how-hot-is-the-sun.html\">27 million degrees Fahrenheit<\/a> \u2014 meaning the EAST reactor was, briefly, more than six times hotter than the closest star.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/scienceofsingularity.com\/2018\/11\/18\/chinas-artificial-sun-is-now-hot-enough-for-nuclear-fusion\/\">https:\/\/scienceofsingularity.com\/2018\/11\/18\/chinas-artificia...ar-fusion\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, a team from China\u2019s Hefei Institutes of Physical Science announced that its Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor \u2014 an \u201cartificial sun\u201d designed to replicate the process our natural Sun uses to generate energy \u2014 just hit a new temperature milestone: 100 million degrees Celsius (180 million degrees Fahrenheit). For comparison, the core [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84859","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\/374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}