Korea’s KSTAR Fusion Reactor Sets a New Record: 100 Million Degrees for 20 Seconds
2020-12-31
On November 24, the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research fusion reactor (KSTAR) set a new operating record, running at over a million degrees Celsius for twenty seconds. While this might seem like a less-than-useful amount of time to have run the high-tech facility at peak temperature, this 20-second uptime is more thanread more