China successfully tests thermonuclear device
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-09-28 15:18
HEFEI, September 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists on Thursday successfully
conducted the first test of an experimental thermonuclear fusion reactor, which
replicates the same energy generation process that fuels the sun.
The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) fusion device,
nicknamed "artificial sun", was tested at the Institute of Plasma Physics under
the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Hefei, capital city of east China's
Anhui Province.
|
