The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), dubbed China’s “artificial sun,” is under experiment at the Institute of Plasma Physics, affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. （Photo/China Central Television) China’s self-designed “artificial sun,” a device to harness the energy of fusion, has made an important advance by achieving a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius in plasma and a heating power of 10 megawatts, media reported, noting the progress could pave the way for developing clean energy through nuclear fusion. The Institute of Plasma Physics, affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced on its website on Monday that various data points achieved in the experiments are close to meeting physics’ demand for future steady-state fusion reactor operation. It also provides an important technological basis for mankind’s development of clean nuclear energy, said the institute. Independently designed and developed by China, the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) is the […]