The "artificial sun" sets a record at 100 million degrees Celsius. This achievement exceeds the previous record achieved by the Korean “Tokamak’ reactor of 31 seconds, recorded in 2021.
Maintaining the stability of turbulent plasma for long periods to facilitate nuclear fusion processes remains a very difficult challenge. To reach a long time for the experiment, scientists in the tokamak reactor decided to replace carbon with “tungsten” in the transformers, which is the element responsible for extracting heat and byproducts.