China's artificial sun is 7 times hotter than the real sun

The Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is conducting testing of the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST).

This is considered a breakthrough paving the way for the development of clean energy through fusion reactions, in the context of the Earth's natural energy reserves gradually being depleted.

The Advanced Superconducting Tokamak Experimental Reactor, with a height of 11m, a diameter of 8m and a weight of 400 tons, aims to provide clean energy by using deuterium and tritium available in seawater to create nuclear fusion reactions under high temperature conditions.

Inside the magnetic cavity used to create the artificial sun. (Photo: CNS)

This fusion reactor, also known as the "artificial sun" designed and manufactured by China, reaches temperatures of up to 100 million degrees Celsius with a heat generation capacity of 10 megawatts.

EAST is a large, circular machine housed inside a round box. It was tested on Science Island in China's eastern Anhui province.

China's artificial sun can reach an astonishing temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius, seven times hotter than the real Sun. The real Sun's core is about 15 million degrees Celsius.

Previously, in early 2017, the International Business Times reported that Germany launched the "world's largest artificial sun" that can generate energy 10,000 times greater than the sun's radiation reaching Earth and reach temperatures of 3,000 degrees Celsius.

However, so far, China is the first country to successfully test "artificial sun".