China builds nuclear fusion plant

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The China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) is a proposed tokamak nuclear fusion reactor in China.[1] CFETR construction is planned for the 2020s as a demonstration of the feasibility of large scale fusion power generation.[2]

The project would include two phases of operation. The first phase aims to demonstrate steady-state operation and tritium breeding. The second phase would include an update of the system to obtain fusion power production of 1 GW or 1000 MW (compared to ITER‘s 500 MW) and a fusion gain higher than 12, with tritium self-sufficiency.[1]

China has developed its own artificial sun that uses nuclear fusion to generate clean energy as much as 10 suns!

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China recently completed the construction of this reactor and the operations for the same are expected to commence starting 2020, according to Xinhua News.

China’s artificial sun is dubbed HL-2M and it was constructed by China National Nuclear Corporation in collaboration with Southwestern Institute of Physics. It is installed at Leshan, Sichuan province.

When fully active, the reactor is capable of reaching temperatures 13 times hotter than our sun — approximately 200 million degrees celsius. Our sun maxes out at 15 million degrees celsius.

The reason it gets so hot is because the reactor conducts nuclear fusion reactions. In case you didn’t know, nuclear fusion forces atoms to fuse together and in this process, a ton of heat is generated. Nuclear plants on earth have always used fission to generate energy — it is when heat is generated by splitting atoms. Nuclear fusion actually happens on the sun and that’s what is going to be recreated by China’s HL-2M.

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