A fusion tokamak in China has smashed its previous fusion record of maintaining a steady-state plasma. This week, scientists working on the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) ...

The EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak) nuclear fusion reactor maintained a temperature of 158 million ...

This achievement comes from the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, or EAST.Researchers held a superheated, high-confinement plasma steady for 1,066 seconds, smashing the previous ...

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak in Heifei, China, a testbed for the long-awaited (and now delayed) International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), successfully contained ...

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), commonly known as China's "artificial sun," has achieved a remarkable scientific milestone by maintaining steady-state high-confinement ...

The experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST) fusion energy reactor set a new record at Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province.

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) nuclear fusion reactor maintained a steady, highly confined loop of plasma — the high-energy fourth state of matter — for 1,066 seconds ...

An artist's impression of China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) in operation. HFIPS. Unlike traditional fission-based nuclear reactors, which release energy through the ...

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak in Hefei is one of 40 fusion reactors being developed across the world. All of them are trying to recreate the power of the sun, here on Earth.

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), dubbed China’s “artificial sun,” reached a steady state of operation for a staggering 1,066 seconds on Monday.

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), often referred to as China’s “artificial sun,” set a new global record. (CREDIT: HFIPS) But making fusion work on Earth isn’t simple.