1,056 seconds, a new pulse length world record for high temperature tokamak plasma, has been achieved by the “artificial sun” at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. On December 30, just before the end of 2021, the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reached this milestone of tokamak operation for longer than 1,000 seconds.

Over the past 15 years of operation, EAST has achieved separate plasma operations of 1 megampere, 160 million degrees and 1,056 seconds. These milestones lay a solid scientific and experimental foundation for the pursuit of fusion energy.

Source: Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS),

Chinese Academy of Sciences