Posted on 12/22/2021 6:28:34 AM PST by Red Badger
A new round of nuclear fusion experiments for an advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST), or “Chinese artificial sun,” kicked off at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science this month, Xinhua News Agency reported on Tuesday. According to the institute’s vice director, Song Yuntao, the experiment is aimed at upgrading the EAST auxiliary heating system to make the artificial sun “hotter” and more “durable.” The testing is expected to last for a half year.
The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) device, also known as the "artificial sun," at a laboratory in Hefei, east China's Anhui province © AFP
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The EAST reactor was designed to replicate the nuclear fusion process carried out by the sun. Since it first became operational in 2006, the EAST has been an open test platform for Chinese and international scientists to conduct fusion-related experiments.
It has already set several records for the duration of confinement of exceedingly hot plasma. In June, the EAST achieved a peak temperature of 288 million degrees Fahrenheit (160 million degrees Celsius), which is over ten times hotter than the sun.
The EAST is one of three major domestic tokamaks that are currently being operated across China. It is part of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor facility, which will become the world’s largest nuclear fusion reactor when it starts operating in 2035.
Hot Fusion!.................
Fusion Business Model - To boil water you must first create a star.
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How does this help global warming.
China a don’t believe in it.....................
That’s pretty clever.
The place where LENR stands in that analogy is that water turns to gas through evaporation at lower temperatures so maybe you can just distill that vapor in smaller amounts.
Why is it in such a small room? There’s no room around it for people to work on it, bring up tools and parts, etc.
Chinese people are small........................
That apparatus appears to be built out of parts from a junkyard.
I guarantee it!......................
“Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!”
Probably be as successful as all the other attempts at “hot fusion”.
That actually is "a thing" in chemistry. Called "sub-boiling distillation". Elimination of bubble formation and subsequent breaking drastically reduces contaminant carry-over and yields a much purer final distillation product. Used primarily in the production of ultra-pure reagents for ultra-trace analysis.
Yes, very good. LENR is an “ultra-pure reagent” of fusion. I like it.
China is going to destroy the pranet.
ISWYDT...................
Different process, I believe. The Navy system flashes everything into the vapor phase as fast as possible. "Sub-boiling distillation" is intended to "flash" nothing into steam, especially trace contaminants.
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