The experimental fusion reactor sustained the temperatures for a record-breaking 17 minutes.
  • holdengreen@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    EAST is expected to cost China more than $1 trillion by the time the experiment finishes running in June, and it is being used to test out technologies for an even bigger fusion project — the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) — that’s currently being built in Marseille, France.

    That’s high compared to their GDP…