China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) achieved a breakthrough in nuclear fusion energy by maintaining ...

A team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has successfully developed a key system ...

And recent research is helping us get there. Meet the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, or EAST. EAST is a fusion reactor based in Hefei, China. And it can now reach temperatures more ...

On January 20, Chinese scientists reported that they were able to maintain a plasma at a temperature of 100 million degrees C for about 1,066 seconds in a nuclear fusion reactor called the ...

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) developed by the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of CAS in Hefei, Anhui province, Jan 15, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] A team from the Hefei ...

Scientists in China are building an "artificial sun" which can generate electricity. It is called Experimental Advanced ...

the Joint European Torus tokamak in the United Kingdom (closed in late 2023), which holds the record for fusion energy, JT-60SA in Japan, EAST in China, and KSTAR in South Korea, not to mention ...

The WEST tokamak is run from the CEA Cadarache facility in southern France and is one of the EUROfusion consortium’s medium size tokamak facilities. The previous record time was achieved by EAST, in ...