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China Just Made a Major Breakthrough In Nuclear Fusion Research (techienews.co.uk)

Posted by yaelk on from the china-takeover dept.

New submitter TechnoidNash writes: China announced last week a major breakthrough in the realm of nuclear fusion research. The Chinese Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), was able to heat hydrogen gas to a temperature of near 50 million degrees Celsius for an unprecedented 102 seconds. While this is nowhere near the hottest temperature that has ever been achieved in nuclear fusion research (that distinction belongs to the Large Hadron Collider which reached 4 trillion degrees Celsius), it is the longest amount of time one has been maintained.

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  1. 4 trillion degrees ? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 3, Funny

    While this is nowhere near the hottest temperature that has ever been achieved in nuclear fusion research (that distinction belongs to the Large Hadron Collider which reached 4 trillion degrees Celsius), ...

    Sadly, even at such temperatures, the LHC was, like the Mythbusters, also unable to successfully flash-fry shrimp in a shrimp cannon.

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  2. Cheap foreign helium atoms by penguinoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know about you, but I'm not getting any cheap, shoddily made helium atoms.

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    1. Re:Cheap foreign helium atoms by Pseudonymous+Powers · · Score: 1, Funny

      I don't know about you, but I'm not getting any cheap, shoddily made helium atoms.

      I'm with you. I always buy the Morton Salt at the grocery store because they use only premium sodium atoms. Also, some cheaper salt is made from chlorine atoms that are scavenged from public swimming pool water, basically old and worn out.

      Oh ha ha ha, I get it, it's funny because all electrically neutral atoms of a particular isotope of a particular element are the same, right? Yeah, that's oldthink, Captain Caveman. Haven't you ever heard of epichemistry? Oh, I bet you're one of those "skeptics" who says epichemistry is bullshit because it''s not "testable". But if epichemistry was really so outlandish, how do you explain its endorsement by both the National Epichemical Council and the American Homeopathy Union? You can't, can you? Hah!

  3. Re: At that temperature... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    A very hungry one, I imagine.

  4. Re:I am not a physicist but... by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not gonna bother googling it, but I'm pretty sure 15 million K is lower (much, much lower) than absolute 0.

    You really should've googled it.

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  5. Re:title by greenfruitsalad · · Score: 4, Funny

    did they use a thermometer from alibaba.com?