France has upped the ante in the quest for fusion power by maintaining a plasma reaction for over 22 minutes – a new record. The milestone was reached on February 12 at the Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) WEST Tokamak reactor.
In the latest test, the WEST Tokamak held its reaction for 1,337 seconds.
They could have gone a few seconds longer but decided to stop it there.
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France really
becomingreturning to it’s position as an international leader in so many different ways.Has been for centuries. There’s dozens upon dozens of “treaties of Paris”
True, I guess I just meant in the face of fading US post-WWII dominance.
Going for the cultural victory late in the game.
Meanwhile Russia going for that lategame domination victory after having a tough dark age where a bunch of cities declared independence.
It amuses me that the two longest-running tokamaks are now EAST in China and WEST in Europe
It’d be way funnier if the China one was named WEST and the European one was EAST
Holy fuck that’s pretty fucking good.
According to CEA, the next step will be to create even longer reactions that could amount to a combined time of several hours, with the temperature growing increasingly hotter.
Is it too hot to hold though? I am interested in the power of the sun in the palm of my hand.
is your hand a magnetic containment field per chance?
I’ll check and get back with you.
It’s been two hours. He ded.
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You can do it once.
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This is actually pretty huge right? I know for the longest time there was always the joke of ‘5 more years and we will have fusion’ but this is measurable progress right?
Yeah the fusion train has been picking up speed. Might be 2.5 years until Fusion now.
Not me being baffled by “The tricky bit isn’t to get atoms to fuse. That’s a fairly simple lab bench experiment.” before remembering that we did that in high school.
When will they be able to start ITER though?
Even assuming no delays, that’s about ten years off.
All I want to know is when I can finally buy a Mr. Fusion for my car.
France baise ouais!
