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7th February 2016, 21:34
From : Market Business News (6 Feb 2016) "Nuclear fusion Germany says beat that and China does handsomely (http://marketbusinessnews.com/nuclear-fusion-germany-says-beat-that-and-china-does-handsomely/123681)"
In the quest for nuclear fusion, a virtually infinite source of safe and clean energy, Germany made great strides last week and said ‘Beat that!’, and China did … handsomely! Germany managed a higher temperature, but its time was super short, while China managed a high but slightly lower temperature, but sustained it for considerably longer.
Last week, German scientists (http://marketbusinessnews.com/nuclear-fusion-the-holy-grail-of-clean-energy-a-step-closer-say-german-scientists/123398) at at the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik said they had used 2 megawatts of microwave radiation to heat hydrogen to 80 million °C for one quarter of a second, and then a team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences said it had managed to maintain 50 million °C (over three times the temperature of the Sun) for 102 seconds.
Nuclear fusion is seen as the Holy Grail of energy. It is a quest most of the advanced economies, as well as China and India are pursuing aggressively. The most important fusion process in nature is the one that powers stars
http://marketbusinessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Chinese-Nuclear-Fusion-Device-EAST.jpg
EAST tokamak is designed on the basis of the latest tokamak achievements of the last century, aiming at the world fusion research forefront
The Chinese Academy of Sciences wrote on its website on Friday (http://english.cas.cn/newsroom/news/201602/t20160205_159588.shtml):
“A team of Chinese scientists in Hefei, capital city of east China’s Anhui Province, has made an unprecedented breakthrough on an energy generation device that will make it one step closer to transform energy into stable, sustainable and controllable resources.”
The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) fusion device, nicknamed "artificial sun", made a 102-second long pulse plasma discharge at over the central electron temperature of 50 million degrees in Hefei at the end of January, 2016. This is the longest plasma discharge time recorded in all the Tokamak fusion devices in the world.
Led by the Chinese scientists at the Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Heifei, the EAST fusion device has made it one step closer to the goal of 1000-second long pulse plasma discharge at over the central electron temperature of 100 million degrees.
http://english.cas.cn/newsroom/news/201602/W020160205347676951723.jpg
The name “artificial sun” was given because the aim of the device is to generate energy like the sun. Under high pressure and high temperature, fusion reactions will take place from inside to outside of the sun. Such fusion reactions will give rise to a great deal of energy to enable to sun to continuously emit light and heat. However, fusion reactions on the sun are uncontrollable and destructive, just like h-bomb explosion seen on the earth. EAST serves to transform such energy into a stable, sustainable and controllable resource. The hydrogen isotope extracted from one liter of seawater can produce energy equivalent to 300 liters of gasoline through complete fusion reactions. (People's Daily Online)
In the quest for nuclear fusion, a virtually infinite source of safe and clean energy, Germany made great strides last week and said ‘Beat that!’, and China did … handsomely! Germany managed a higher temperature, but its time was super short, while China managed a high but slightly lower temperature, but sustained it for considerably longer.
Last week, German scientists (http://marketbusinessnews.com/nuclear-fusion-the-holy-grail-of-clean-energy-a-step-closer-say-german-scientists/123398) at at the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik said they had used 2 megawatts of microwave radiation to heat hydrogen to 80 million °C for one quarter of a second, and then a team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences said it had managed to maintain 50 million °C (over three times the temperature of the Sun) for 102 seconds.
Nuclear fusion is seen as the Holy Grail of energy. It is a quest most of the advanced economies, as well as China and India are pursuing aggressively. The most important fusion process in nature is the one that powers stars
http://marketbusinessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Chinese-Nuclear-Fusion-Device-EAST.jpg
EAST tokamak is designed on the basis of the latest tokamak achievements of the last century, aiming at the world fusion research forefront
The Chinese Academy of Sciences wrote on its website on Friday (http://english.cas.cn/newsroom/news/201602/t20160205_159588.shtml):
“A team of Chinese scientists in Hefei, capital city of east China’s Anhui Province, has made an unprecedented breakthrough on an energy generation device that will make it one step closer to transform energy into stable, sustainable and controllable resources.”
The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) fusion device, nicknamed "artificial sun", made a 102-second long pulse plasma discharge at over the central electron temperature of 50 million degrees in Hefei at the end of January, 2016. This is the longest plasma discharge time recorded in all the Tokamak fusion devices in the world.
Led by the Chinese scientists at the Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Heifei, the EAST fusion device has made it one step closer to the goal of 1000-second long pulse plasma discharge at over the central electron temperature of 100 million degrees.
http://english.cas.cn/newsroom/news/201602/W020160205347676951723.jpg
The name “artificial sun” was given because the aim of the device is to generate energy like the sun. Under high pressure and high temperature, fusion reactions will take place from inside to outside of the sun. Such fusion reactions will give rise to a great deal of energy to enable to sun to continuously emit light and heat. However, fusion reactions on the sun are uncontrollable and destructive, just like h-bomb explosion seen on the earth. EAST serves to transform such energy into a stable, sustainable and controllable resource. The hydrogen isotope extracted from one liter of seawater can produce energy equivalent to 300 liters of gasoline through complete fusion reactions. (People's Daily Online)