China has recently reported that it is close to completing its “artificial sun”- Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor, after it achieved an ion temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius.
Background
• Nuclear fusion has been the focus of the researchers as the solution for clean energy, which can replace the conventional sources of energy like coal, oil, gas etc.
• But the application and control of fusion process is not easy to harness. A very high pressure and temperature is required to initiate the fusion process. Even if those conditions are created, then the energy generated during the process is prone to bursts, which can be deadly.
• The scientists have been working on harnessing this process from a long time, the most prominent among them being the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER).
• China is working on an Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor — an "artificial sun" designed to mimic the nuclear fusion process the real Sun uses to generate energy.
• The machine, called HL-2M Tokamak, is being constructed at the Southwestern Institute of Physics in China.
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