the "artifical sun" made by china

the "artifical sun"made by china had past it's first test.

recently the first equipment named "全超导托卡马克EAST"made by chinese scientist had finished the first engine test.

Yes, I read about this a month ago on BBC... If this is accomplished, China would achive a major scentific development. :china:

So is this a fusion reactor then?--that link is just a small pic of some industrial looking vessel. Is it a military program?

Looks like someones been watching too much spiderman2. How on earth is this machine supposed to contain the fusion reaction? Do they realize the result may develop it;s own gravity field?

magnetic field. That's how they did it in the Tokamak.

I see...where did the Chinese get their tritium(or heavy water) then? Did they make it on their own?

walter said:

So is this a fusion reactor then?--that link is just a small pic of some industrial looking vessel. Is it a military program?

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So long as I don't have a crossed wire on what this is about, there's no way that China has got anything like a proper fusion reactor working. Perhaps they got a reaction by using more energy than it produced. But this is nothing new, because JET managed that years ago.

MIGleader said:

I see...where did the Chinese get their tritium(or heavy water) then? Did they make it on their own?

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The same source they get thir tritium for their hydrogen bombs.

MIGleader said:

I see...where did the Chinese get their tritium(or heavy water) then? Did they make it on their own?

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They got heavy water years ago a bi product of the mao era nuke program