#Chinese artificial sun, the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), can maintain plasma at a staggering 100 million degrees Celsius. To put that into perspective, the sun's core is only 15 million degrees, making EAST seven times hotter! When this steel sun truly illuminates civilization, #energy scarcity will vanish. #MegaProject #Innovation | China Daily

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), often called the artificial sun, achieved an unprecedented plasma density while maintaining stability. Plasma density is critical because fusion reactions become more efficient as density increases, but too much density was believed to cause instability and collapse. By breaking this limit, EAST showed that fusion plasmas can be denser and more stable than existing models predicted. This challenges long-held assumptions in fusion phys