Nuclear fusion: WEST machine beats the world record for plasma duration

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Scientists have passed a "milestone" on the path to nuclear fusion by maintaining a plasma for over 22 minutes, a record, in the reactor operated by the CEA (Atomic Energy Commission) at Cadarache, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department of France.

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France ‘sets new plasma record’ in hunt for nuclear fusion

French scientists have reached a ‘crucial milestone’ in the long road towards nuclear fusion by managing to maintain raging-hot plasma for a record 22 minutes, officials have said.

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Nuclear fusion: WEST machine beats the world record for plasma duration

1,337 seconds: that was how long WEST, a tokamak run from the CEA Cadarache site in southern France and one of the EUROfusion consortium medium size Tokamak facilities, was able to maintain a plasma for on 12 February. This was a 25% improvement on the previous record time achieved with EAST, in China, a few weeks previously.

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French 'milestone' in hunt for N-fusion

French scientists on Tuesday announced that they had reached a "crucial milestone" in the long road towards nuclear fusion by managing to maintain raging-hot plasma for a record 22 minutes. Nuclear fusion has the much-vaunted potential to provide the world with clean, safe and nearly inexhaustible energy -- but the scientific holy grail has remained stubbornly elusive over decades. The idea is to recreate the process that occurs at the heart of …

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Scientists reached a milestone on the road to nuclear fusion - which promises inexhaustible, clean and cheap energy - by keeping plasma for more than 22 minutes in an experimental reactor, the French Atomic Energy Commission announced.

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At its Bouches-du-Rhône site, the Atomic Energy Commission managed to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes at a stationary temperature of 50 million degrees Celsius. A record achieved thanks to the WEST tokamak, which beats by 5 minutes the one obtained by its rival, the Chinese EAST tokamak, in January. Source