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

Posted by yaelk on Monday February 8, 2016 @04:07PM 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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Cheap foreign helium atoms by penguinoid · 2016-02-08 16:43 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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Re:title by greenfruitsalad · 2016-02-08 21:47 · Score: 4, Funny

did they use a thermometer from alibaba.com?