China has been investing billions in nuclear fusion research. A potential game-changer for global energy, fusion has been ...

China’s flagship fusion experiment has crossed a line that many physicists once treated as a hard stop, pushing plasma ...

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak has pushed fusion research into a new regime by holding a high density ...

China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak has just shattered a longstanding limit in nuclear plasma density.

Researchers working with China’s "artificial sun," have discovered a method to push past a long-standing physical limit in ...

Researchers working on China's fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have experimentally ...

China’s EAST reactor just broke a fundamental fusion limit—bringing the dream of ignition a big step closer. shutterstock.

At the heart of nuclear fusion research is the tokamak, a sophisticated device designed to confine hot plasma using magnetic fields. The tokamak's toroidal shape acts as a "magnetic racetrack," ...

The sun is shining in China, but probably not in the way you would expect. Scientists working on the Huanliu-3 (HL-3) tokamak, a nuclear fusion device in Hefei, China, have had a breakthrough that ...

China's HL-2M tokamak, commonly known as the new-generation "artificial sun," was powered up and then completed its first plasma discharge on Dec. 4, laying a solid foundation for building the country ...

Researchers using China’s “artificial sun” fusion reactor have broken through a long-standing density barrier in fusion ...

Researchers working on China's fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have experimentally ...