China has made a significant breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology, achieving record temperatures in its EAST experiment, ...

With the reward of ending energy poverty globally, more and more players have entered the race and reporting progress. In May 2023, Washington-based Helion Energy announced a deal with Microsoft to ...

The competition in nuclear fusion technology among countries is intensifying. Projects like ITER and WEST are working together to develop the technologies needed for commercial fusion reactors.

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 ...

Chinese scientists sustain plasma at 100 million degrees C for 1,066 seconds in EAST, advancing nuclear fusion research.

China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) fusion energy reactor, also known as the 'artificial sun', has ...

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

This was more than 25 percent higher than the recently set record in China: At the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) fusion reactor, plasma with a temperature of over 100 ...

This photo shows the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak in Hefei, East China's Anhui province, Jan 15, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] In recent years, EAST has continuously achieved ...

China has taken a major step forward in nuclear fusion research after its Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) sustained a high-confinement plasma operation for 1,066 seconds on ...