In the most recent experiment, China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) produced a plasma temperature of 216 million Fahrenheit (120 million Celsius) for 101 seconds.
Not only that, but according to state media sources, the scientists working on the “artificial sun” also attained 288 million Fahrenheit (160 million C) for 20 seconds.
The Tokamak device, located at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) in Hefei, was developed to replicate the nuclear fusion process, which occurs naturally in the Sun and stars.
The experiment is being conducted in order to create endless clean energy via controlled nuclear fusion.
The Chinese experiment is part of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) facility, a global research project that, when completed in 2035, would be the world’s biggest nuclear fusion reactor.
The project is being worked on by 35 nations, including China, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia, and the United States. One of the most difficult hurdles in harnessing nuclear fusion is reaching a plasma temperature of more than 100 million degrees Celsius.
In 2020, Korea’s KSTAR reactor made a record by holding a plasma temperature of more than 100 million degrees Celsius for 20 seconds.
It is estimated that the temperature in the center of the Sun is 15 million degrees Celsius, which also indicates that the temperature produced by (E) is seven times hotter than our solar system’s Sun.
