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Can We Create a Sun Which Is Better Than the One Existing?
Chinese artificial sun beats the Korean one by 60 million degrees.
Korean Artificial Sun
It is called ‘artificial sun’ and actually, a more appropriate nickname could not exist: the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) broke all records, maintaining the temperature of 100 million degrees for 20 seconds.
The KSTAR is an advanced research device on magnetic nuclear fusion, built at the National Fusion Research Institute in Daejeon, South Korea. With the aim of studying the possibility of obtaining magnetic fusion energy, it was approved in 1995 but has delays due to the East Asian financial crisis which has significantly weakened the South Korean economy. However, on 14 September 2007, the plant was completed and the first active plasma was produced in June 2008.
The tokamak itself is not a new device and there are others in the world. The word is the acronym of a Russian expression that means “magnetic toroidal chamber” and generally indicates a toroidal (donut) shaped machine where a hot and rarefied gas (usually hydrogen) (in the state of matter called plasma ) is kept cohesive and away from the internal walls by a strong magnetic field created by devices external to the chamber and which actually surround it.
