"Korean Fusion Reactor Achieves Record 100 Million Degrees for Extended Duration"
TL;DR
Scientists in South Korea have achieved a new world record by sustaining temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius for 48 seconds in a nuclear fusion experiment using the KSTAR "artificial sun" device, marking a significant step forward for fusion energy technology. The goal is to sustain these temperatures for 300 seconds by 2026, which could pave the way for scaling up fusion operations. This achievement, along with other recent breakthroughs in nuclear fusion, brings hope for the potential commercialization of fusion energy as a clean and limitless energy source in the latter half of the century.
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