China's "artificial sun" achieves breakthrough, key step toward fusion reactor

STORY: China's "artificial sun" achieves breakthrough, key step toward fusion reactor DATELINE: April 13, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:50 LOCATION: HEFEI, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. China's "artificial sun" achieving breakthrough 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): SONG YUNTAO, ASIPP director STORYLINE: The experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST), or the Chinese "artificial sun," achieved a steady-state high confinement plasma operation for 403 seconds on Wednesday, a key step toward the development of a fusion reactor. The breakthrough, achieved after more than 120,000 shots, greatly improved the original world record of 101 seconds, which was set by EAST in 2017. The ultimate goal of EAST, located at the Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) in Hefei, is to create nuclear fusion like the sun, using substances abundant in the sea to provide a steady stream of clean energy. Song Yuntao, ASIPP director, told Xinhua in an exclusive interview that the main s

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