Korea’s national artificial sun nuclear fusion reactor has set a new record by running at 100 million degrees Celsius for a full 20 seconds.
Fusion may be a decade away, but even a few seconds make a big difference at this stage. Let’s take a closer look—from a safe distance, of course.
Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) achieved first fusion in 2008 and is considered a kind of farm league for France's huge international ITER project, the fusion reactor has millions of individual parts that will eventually form the world's largest tokamak.
Korea built some of the sections of that tokamak’s vacuum container, will make the thermal shields that surround the reactor’s huge magnets, and is now working on making two of the gigantic tools that will assemble the sections. But Korea's contribution extends beyond manufacturing, as the country is also offering technological insights based on 12 years and counting of intellectual work and insights from KSTAR.
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