Chinese Tokamak plasma claimed to reach 100 million degrees C

[gary]

Scientists from China's Institute of Plasma Physics announced this week
that plasma in their Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST)
reached 100 million degrees Celsius.

By comparison, the core of the Sun is about 15 million degrees Celsius.

The etymology of the word "tokamak" is from Russian where it
is an acronym for "toroidal chamber with magnetic coils".

A tokamak uses powerful magnetic fields to attempt to confine a hot
plasma and work by various teams around the world from the late
1950's to the present time have made attempts to engineer them
into practical vessels in which to achieve nuclear fusion.



Story ABC news :-
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-15/china-attempts-to-create-an-artificial-sun/10495536

[Dennis]

Thanks for that Gary, I recently caught the documentary on ITER Project, an international collaboration:

"In southern France, 35 nations are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy based on the same principle that powers our Sun and stars."

https://www.iter.org/proj/inafewlines

Cheers

Dennis

[gary]

Thanks Dennis,

I saw that documentary when it aired on SBS and it was fascinating.

It is still available for the next 16 days on the SBS On Demand service (free login account required) :-

https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1350182979871/cold-fusion-let-there-be-light

[multiweb]

When I was little in the early 70s I was living a couple of Ks from Cadarache, ITER now. My dad was telling me that within 100 years we'd have a new type of energy called fusion, the opposite of nuclear fission and that the maths worked. It would just take time to build. Exciting times to live in.