China's 'artificial Sun' sustains 100-mn-degree heat for 1,066 secs, sets record

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), dubbed China's 'artificial Sun', sustained plasma temperatures above 100 million degrees Celsius for 1,066 seconds, setting a new world record. The breakthrough achieved was more than the original world record of 403 seconds, which was also set by EAST in 2023. The duration of 1,000 seconds is considered a key step in fusion research.