continuation of this post from June 2021
http://www.oleocene.org/phpBB3/viewtopi ... 5#p2320215 In China, this nuclear reactor created an artificial sun for 17 minutes
The physicists of the HL-2M tokamak have broken a new record.
By Matthieu Balu Huffpost Dec 31, 2021
NUCLEAR FUSION - 70 million degrees Celsius for 1056 seconds: these are the breathtaking figures reached by researchers at the Chinese Center for Advanced Superconducting Experimentation (EAST) in the province of Anhui, in the east of the country. A performance to be found in the video at the top of this article.
For the tokamak, this donut-shaped magnetic confinement mechanism where particles accelerate is a new record. In May 2021, the same team had created a plasma for 101 seconds, at a temperature of 150 million degrees, much more than our sun. Crazy numbers, but necessary to reach the fusion mechanism.
Indeed, our current nuclear reactors operate by fission. We take very large atoms, like uranium, and we will break its nucleus to divide it into two smaller atoms. With the merger, it is the reverse. We are going to take two hydrogen atoms, the smallest possible, and merge them.
The objective is to manage to stabilize this mechanism, like the heart of our stars, starting with the sun, a gigantic nuclear fusion reactor. In 2021, the Chinese tokamak, also called HL-2M, will have made significant strides in the search for this gigantic ... and clean source of energy. The ITER network, based in Cadarache (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur), of which the EAST is one of the satellites with 35 partner countries, will benefit from these advances but its construction will not be finished before 2025.
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