News- Recently China’s ‘artificial sun’, the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor, sustained plasma for 1,000 seconds, breaking its 2023 record of 403 seconds.
About Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor
- It is a fusion research device located at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) in Hefei, China.
- It became operational in 2006.
- Its purpose is to study and develop nuclear fusion technology by replicating the process that powers the Sun.
- It aims to achieve sustained high-temperature plasma confinement, advancing research for future clean and limitless energy sources.
- It serves as a testing platform for materials, superconducting technology, and plasma control methods essential for next-generation fusion reactors like International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER).
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About International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)
- ITER is an international collaboration involving China, Europe, Japan, India, South Korea, Russia, and the United States.
- India formally joined ITER in 2005.
- It is being built in France to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion as a sustainable energy source.
- It will become the world’s largest nuclear fusion reactor when it becomes operational in 2035.
- Designed as the largest Tokamak device, it aims to test magnetic confinement for producing fusion energy.
- A Tokamak is a doughnut-shaped device designed for controlled thermonuclear fusion.
