Future energy: The EAST manages to sustain operation for 1,056 seconds in the latest experiment in Hefei, Anhui province. — XInhua
HEFEI: The experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST), or the Chinese “artificial sun”, has achieved a continuous high-temperature plasma operation for 1,056 seconds in the latest experiment, the longest time of operation of its kind in the world.
Thursday’s breakthrough was announced on Friday by Gong Xianzu, a researcher at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP), who is in charge of the experiment conducted in Hefei, capital of Anhui province.
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