China’s latest experiments with its so‑called “artificial sun” have pushed nuclear fusion into territory many physicists long treated as a hard stop. By driving superheated plasma beyond a key density ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (East) reactor achieved plasma density levels 'far exceeding empirical ...

The "artificial sun" HL-3 at the CNNC Southwestern Institute of Physics in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province. Photo: VCG China's new-generation "artificial sun," HL-3, is accelerating toward ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In the race for clean energy, no technology is quite as promising as nuclear fusion, but the road toward energy freedom is filled with barriers that ...

China’s rapidly expanding nuclear program has entered a new phase. A new report from the China Nuclear Energy Association ...

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Researchers working on China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) say they have managed to operate the reactor beyond a plasma density limit that has constrained fusion experiments ...

Scientists in China have made a breakthrough with fusion energy that could finally overcome one of the most stubborn barriers to realising the next-generation energy source. A team from the Chinese ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The plasma density barrier is a mathematical limit to the density of plasma that can exist in a tokamak before destabilizing. A new study led by a ...