China's 'artificial sun' achieves record 120 million Celsius for 101 seconds

China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) set a new record by achieving plasma temperature of 120 million Celsius for 101 seconds and 160 million Celsius for 20 seconds. It broke a previous record of maintaining plasma temperature at 100 million Celsius for 100 seconds. The experimental fusion reactor replicates the nuclear fusion process that occurs in the sun and stars.