France sets new nuclear fusion record, surpassing China’s achievement

New Record: Reactor Crosses 'Crucial Milestone' in Achieving Nuclear Fusion

French scientists on Tuesday announced that they had reached a "crucial milestone" in the long road towards nuclear fusion by managing to maintain raging-hot plasma for a record 22 minutes.

Imagining a world with clean, “infinite” energy is no longer just science fiction. In France, a group of researchers achieved a remarkable feat by maintaining a plasma reaction for more than 22...

France sets new nuclear fusion record, surpassing China’s achievement

A nuclear fusion reactor in France has broken a record previously held by China, according to the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission. France's reactor sustained a stable plasma loop for over 22 minutes, surpassing China’s 18-minute record. Nuclear fusion mimics the sun’s energy process with the potential to provide sustainable and continuous electricity. However, current technology still consumes more power than it produces…

France tops China’s tokamak record in 22-minute plasma trap

Nice number, but also not much more than a nice advance

On 12 February, the CEA’s Tokamak WEST (French Studies Centre) managed to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes, thus beating the previous record of plasma duration achieved with a tokamak in China. According to the CEA, this progress demonstrates that its knowledge of plasmas and technological control of them for longer periods is maturing and offers the hope that fusion plasmas can stabilize for longer periods in machines such as the ITER…

France has marked a new milestone in fusion energy by maintaining a plasma reaction for more than 22 minutes. The record has been reached in the Tokamak WEST reactor, managed by the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA). The Tokamak WEST of the CEA achieved a record time of operation of the plasma of 1,337 seconds, surpassing by 25% the reference time of 1,066 seconds of China and shattering the reference time of 1…