Scientists from China conducted another experiment with the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST). This facility is referred to as the 'artificial Sun.' Researchers were able to maintain operation for a record long time. No state in the world had previously managed to do this.
The record of the 'artificial Sun' has opened a new era in energy: what is known.
The facility was able to achieve an important result that scientists have been striving for many years. We detail the achievement.
Scientists from China conducted another experiment with the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST). This facility is referred to as the 'artificial Sun.' Researchers were able to maintain operation for a record long time. No state in the world had previously managed to do this.
EAST is a special reactor. It creates conditions in which controlled nuclear fusion can be achieved. This is necessary in order to develop facilities that can produce unlimited amounts of cheap energy in the future. The Chinese tokamak was launched in 2006, after which it was repeatedly experimented on.
In January 2025, researchers were able to maintain stable operation of highly confined plasma for 1066 seconds (17.7 minutes). During this time, the plasma heated up to more than 100 million degrees Celsius. This figure is tens of times higher than the temperatures observed in the core of the Sun. The new achievement was established by specialists from the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This time, scientists surpassed their own world record. In 2023, a similar process lasted 403 seconds.
