Tokamak Reactor: China's "Artificial Sun"

  • China successfully powered up its HL-2M Tokamak nuclear fusion reactor, marking a great advance in the country's nuclear power research capabilities.
  • The HL-2M Tokamak reactor is China's largest and most advanced nuclear fusion experimental research device, and scientists hope that the device can potentially unlock a powerful clean energy source.
  • It uses a powerful magnetic field to fuse hot plasma and can reach temperatures of over 150 million degrees Celsius, approximately ten times hotter than the core of the sun.
  • It is located in southwestern Sichuan province and completed in 2019, and the reactor is often called an "artificial sun" ....
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