{"id":89943,"date":"2019-04-25T08:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T15:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/chinas-artificial-sun-project-to-harness-nuclear-fusion-energy"},"modified":"2019-04-25T08:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T15:22:36","slug":"chinas-artificial-sun-project-to-harness-nuclear-fusion-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/chinas-artificial-sun-project-to-harness-nuclear-fusion-energy","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s \u2018artificial sun\u2019 project to harness nuclear fusion energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-artificial-sun-project-to-harness-nuclear-fusion-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s \u201cartificial sun\u201d will achieve nuclear fusion by the middle of this century, one of the project leaders said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>HL-2M Tokamak, the modified Chinese-designed \u201cartificial sun\u201d and a device to harness energy from fusion, will be completed this year. It is expected to increase the electricity intensity from one mega amperes to three mega amperes, an important step to achieve nuclear fusion, a spokesperson surnamed Liu with the press office of the Southwestern Institute of Physics (SWIP), affiliated with China National Nuclear Corporation, told the Global Times. An ampere is a standard measurement of electric current.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, the deuterium (also known as heavy hydrogen) extracted from one liter of seawater releases the energy equivalent of burning 300 liters of gasoline in a complete fusion reaction, Liu said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/1147302.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s \u201cartificial sun\u201d will achieve nuclear fusion by the middle of this century, one of the project leaders said Wednesday. HL-2M Tokamak, the modified Chinese-designed \u201cartificial sun\u201d and a device to harness energy from fusion, will be completed this year. It is expected to increase the electricity intensity from one mega amperes to three mega [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89943","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=89943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}