Nuclear reactor using EAST machine creates temperatures 3 times hotter than the sun
Q. A Chinese nuclear reactor on a machine called EAST has attained three times more heat than the sun. What does EAST stand for?- Published on 15 Feb 16a. Experimental Advanced Sun Tokamak
b. Experimental Advanced Solar Tokamak
c. Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak
d. None of the above
ANSWER: Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak
Nuclear reactor in China has created plasma at temperature of 90 million Fahrenheit for 102 seconds (around 49.999 million degrees C or 50 million Kelvins). Temperature is three times hotter than the sun’s core or a mid zed thermo nuclear explosion. This study was conducted at the Institute of Plasma Physics at Chinese Academy of Sciences in Jiangsu province. Research team maintained the high temperature for 1000 seconds or nearly 17 minutes.The EAST machine or Experimental Advanced Supercomputing Tokamak was used for this study. Plasma created is a super hot has formed from the heating of atoms in the magnetic EAST device. EAST experiment follows successful testing of German Wendelstein 7- stellarator fusion reactor earlier in the month for only a second.
