January 25, 2006

Chine building articifical sun

Filed under: tech - alexei @ 7:44 am
Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Plasma Physics in Hefei (capital of Anhui province) is building a full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, nicknamed "artificial sun," which aims to generate near-infinite, clean nuclear-fusion-based energy. The scientists behind project EAST (experimental advanced superconducting Tokamak) believe that they can get a huge amount of energy from a deuterium-tritium fusion reaction under temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius (hence the nickname), the energy produced by the detrium extracted from one liter of sea water will yield that equal to 300 liters of gasoline. The device will be finished in March or April, with experiments to start in July-August.

China to build world’s first "artificial sun" experimental device, People’s Daily Online

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