Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration!

Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration!

CEA.com 18 February 2025 1,337 seconds: that was how long WEST, a tokamak run from the CEA Cadarache site in southern France and one of the EUROfusion consortium medium size Tokamak facilities, was able to maintain a plasma for on 12 February. This was a 25% improvement on the previous record time achieved with EAST, in … Read more

France fusion reactor breaks record for plasma duration

France fusion reactor breaks record for plasma duration

WEST, the tokamak run by the CEA. Credit: L. Godard/CEA. ZME Science Feb. 21, 2025 Researchers in France have set an impressive new record. For 22 breathtaking minutes, blazing-hot plasma swirled inside the WEST tokamak, setting a new world record for plasma duration. A tokamak is one of the most promising designs for a fusion … Read more

USCL Letter to George Bush 2002

A letter sent by Hugh Roy Marshall on behalf of USCL to President George W. Bush (Read President Bush’s response here) Download PDF This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it..

China’s ‘artificial sun’ shatters nuclear fusion record by generating steady loop of plasma for 1,000 seconds

Live Science Jan. 21, 2025 A nuclear fusion reactor in China, dubbed the “artificial sun,” has broken its own record to bring humanity one step closer to near-limitless clean energy. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) nuclear fusion reactor on Jan. 15, 2025 in China. (Image credit: Zhang Dagang/VCG via Getty Images) China‘s “artificial sun” … Read more