{"id":72030,"date":"2020-12-06T12:49:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T07:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=72030"},"modified":"2020-12-07T13:31:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T08:01:02","slug":"china-turns-on-artificial-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-turns-on-artificial-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"China turns on \u2018artificial sun\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/china-turns-on-artificial-sun\/article33253082.ece\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:\u00a0<\/strong>China has successfully powered up its artificial sun nuclear fusion reactor named \u201cHL-2M Tokamak reactor\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>HL-2M Tokamak reactor:\u00a0<\/strong>It is China\u2019s largest and most advanced nuclear fusion experimental research device that can potentially unlock a powerful clean energy source.<\/li>\n<li>It uses a powerful magnetic field to fuse hot plasma and can reach temperatures of over 150 million degrees Celsius approximately ten times hotter than the core of the sun.<\/li>\n<li>Hence, the reactor is often called an \u201cartificial sun\u201d on account of the enormous heat and power it produces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nuclear Fusion:\u00a0<\/strong>It is considered the Holy Grail of energy and is what powers our sun.It merges atomic nuclei to create massive amounts of energy \u2014 the opposite of the fission process used in atomic weapons and nuclear power plants which splits them into fragments.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advantages of Fusion:\u00a0<\/strong>Unlike fission, fusion emits no greenhouse gases and carries less risk of accidents or the theft of atomic material. But achieving fusion is both extremely difficult and prohibitively expensive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Click here News:\u00a0China has successfully powered up its artificial sun nuclear fusion reactor named \u201cHL-2M Tokamak reactor\u201d. Facts: HL-2M Tokamak reactor:\u00a0It is China\u2019s largest and most advanced nuclear fusion experimental research device that can potentially unlock a powerful clean energy source. It uses a powerful magnetic field to fuse hot plasma and can reach&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-turns-on-artificial-sun\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China turns on \u2018artificial sun\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1424],"class_list":["post-72030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-st_6","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":19,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}