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 that paves 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 thermonuclear 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 circular box. It is being tested on Science Island in East China's 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 has a temperature of 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 solar radiation reaching Earth and reach a temperature of 3,000 degrees Celsius.

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