China is about to have an artificial sun

The Hefei Institute of Physical Science under the Chinese Academy of Sciences will complete the advanced superconducting nuclear fusion reactor (EAST) in March or April 2006.

Nuclear fusion reactor (also known as Jet fusion reactor) of Europe.Fusion fusion reactors are an important step in developing nuclear energy.It is not likely to pollute like current plutonium and uranium nuclear reactors.

At that time, Hefei will become the first institute in the world to build a donut-shaped oven, so completely superconducting, also known as the artificial sun.

The energy crisis has begun to threaten the world, as oil, coal and other non-renewable energy sources are running out. Scientists propose deuterium separation from seawater and initiate the nuclear fusion reaction of this element at 100 million degrees Celsius.

In nuclear fusion, deuterium separated from 1kg of seawater can produce energy equivalent to the energy of 300 liters of gasoline.

The construction of a reactor can withstand 100 million degrees Celsius and control deuterium nuclear fusion to ensure stable, continuous capacity, equivalent to creating an artificial sun. The sun has a nuclear fusion reactor.

This type of furnace can provide clean, endless energy like the sun. Meanwhile, seawater is almost never depleted.

When heated to hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius, a mixture of deuterium and tritium - two isotopes of hydrogen - will fuse together to make helium and high-speed neutrons. The heat generated by neutrons will be used to operate the turbine.

Superconducting magnets will hold the plasma in mid-air in a donut-shaped reactor. Plasma is a hot ionized mixture of two hydrogen isotopes - deuterium and tritium

In 1990, China's Plasma Physics Institute built HT-7, the country's first superconducting nuclear fusion reactor. With HT-7, China becomes the fourth country in the world to have such a device after Russia, France and Japan.

In 2000, scientists began building a new generation, completely superconducting, donut-shaped reactor based on HT-7 and named it EAST. EAST introduced China to the world's leading group of researchers on nuclear fusion.

This is also a key project in China's 9 year 5-year plan.

Minh Son