It is a first in the world. Chinese scientists have managed to carry out a nuclear fusion reaction in a new reactor called “artificial sun”. This “artificial sun produces the same type of reactions as within the real sun, they announce.
This first is part of the largest international scientific project: the international experimental thermonuclear reactor, abbreviated ITER (from the English international thermonuclear experience Reactor).
This international research project aims, in the long term, the industrialization of nuclear merger, as a source of energy and associates 35 countries: the EU as well as the United Kingdom, India, Japan, China, Russia, South Korea, the United States and Switzerland.
Its objective is also to reach a first fusion installation reaching a quantity of net energy – more energy produced than energy necessary to operate.
“Indeed, it is not really the reproduction of a sun within a laboratory, such as Hollywood imagery could represent it”, according to the Numerama site.
It is more specifically a machine in the form of a nuclear fusion reactor. Since 2006, China has had a machine in this way, called Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak “, reports the TAP agency.
