China-Artificial Sun

China makes breakthrough in artificial sun research

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Hefei City, Anhui Province, east China - Nov 12, 2018 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of equipment of Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST)
2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Gong Xianzu, researcher at Institute of Plasma Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences:
"We accomplished a high-density H-mode high-beta non-inductive steady-state operation of the EAST. By analyzing the physical integration, we can meet the requirements of a future fusion reactor in terms of normalized parameters."
3. Various of equipment of EAST

FILE: Hefei, Anhui Province, east China - Exact Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
4. Various of researchers working
5. Animation showing EAST working, plasma

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China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), the man-made sun, has made an important breakthrough by achieving an electron temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius in plasma and running under such a temperature for almost ten seconds, the EAST team announced on Monday.

The research team said by using various heating techniques, the heating power reached 10 megawatts, the accumulation energy in plasma increased to 300 kilojoules and the electron temperature reached 100 million degrees Celsius for the first time.

"We accomplished a high-density H-mode high-beta non-inductive steady-state operation of the EAST. By analyzing the physical integration, we can meet the requirements of a future fusion reactor in terms of normalized parameters," said Gong Xianzu, a researcher at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The EAST, with a height of 11 meters, a diameter of eight meters and a weight of 400 tons, is aimed at providing clean energy by inducing the deuterium and tritium in seawater to form nuclear fusion under high-temperature conditions.

The latest research has provided experimental evidence and scientific support for the ongoing China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) project and laid a solid technical foundation for exploring and using nuclear fusion clean energy, according to the institute.

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  • ID : 8095632
  • Dateline : Nov 13, 2018/File
  • Location : Anhui Province,China
  • Category : science and technology
  • Duration : 1'31
  • Audio Language : Chinese/Nats
  • Source : China Central Television (CCTV)
  • Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland
  • Published : 2018-11-13 09:34
  • Last Modified : 2018-11-13 13:42:00
  • Version : 2

China-Artificial Sun

China makes breakthrough in artificial sun research

Dateline : Nov 13, 2018/File

Location : Anhui Province,China

Duration : 1'31

  • English


Hefei City, Anhui Province, east China - Nov 12, 2018 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of equipment of Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST)
2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Gong Xianzu, researcher at Institute of Plasma Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences:
"We accomplished a high-density H-mode high-beta non-inductive steady-state operation of the EAST. By analyzing the physical integration, we can meet the requirements of a future fusion reactor in terms of normalized parameters."
3. Various of equipment of EAST

FILE: Hefei, Anhui Province, east China - Exact Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
4. Various of researchers working
5. Animation showing EAST working, plasma


China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), the man-made sun, has made an important breakthrough by achieving an electron temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius in plasma and running under such a temperature for almost ten seconds, the EAST team announced on Monday.

The research team said by using various heating techniques, the heating power reached 10 megawatts, the accumulation energy in plasma increased to 300 kilojoules and the electron temperature reached 100 million degrees Celsius for the first time.

"We accomplished a high-density H-mode high-beta non-inductive steady-state operation of the EAST. By analyzing the physical integration, we can meet the requirements of a future fusion reactor in terms of normalized parameters," said Gong Xianzu, a researcher at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The EAST, with a height of 11 meters, a diameter of eight meters and a weight of 400 tons, is aimed at providing clean energy by inducing the deuterium and tritium in seawater to form nuclear fusion under high-temperature conditions.

The latest research has provided experimental evidence and scientific support for the ongoing China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) project and laid a solid technical foundation for exploring and using nuclear fusion clean energy, according to the institute.

ID : 8095632

Published : 2018-11-13 09:34

Last Modified : 2018-11-13 13:42:00

Source : China Central Television (CCTV)

Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland

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