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China's Artificial Sun Just Smashed a Fusion World Record
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Popular Mechanics (since 1902) 6/7/21 "The formidable reactor reached 120 million degrees Celsius (~216 million degrees F) for an astounding 101 seconds." " Why does the temperature have to be so extraordinarily hot? The sun, after all, operates at “just” 15 million degrees Celsius. But it also has a huge advantage because of its enormous size, getting an assist from gravity that helps to smash its atoms together. Instead of using gravity, Earthbound tokamaks must heat to many millions more degrees in order to make the atoms amenable to the smash." (According to some astronomers, about 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the Sun, a medium-sized star) https://www.popularmechanics.com/sci...0Non%20Openers .
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