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South Korea’s ‘Artificial Sun’ Breaks World Record

  • South Korea’s magnetic fusion device, the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) has set a new world record for fusion.
  • It achieved a temperature of over 100 million degrees Celsius for 20 seconds.
  • The Sun burns at 15 million degrees Celsius. By comparison, the KSTAR was able to achieve a temperature of over 6.6 times more than that of Sun’s.
  • The KSTAR has often been referred to as South Korea’s “artificial sun”. It is a part of joint research conducted with Seoul National University and Columbia University of the US.
  • In December 2020 China powered ....
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