From The Register, February 20:
Nice number, but also not much more than a nice advance
France’s Commissariat à L'énergie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on Tuesday claimed it’s topped China’s recently-established for record maintaining fusion plasma in a tokamak, and therefore taken another step towards building a fusion reactor capable of producing cheap energy.
The Commissariat (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, or CEA) announced that its CEA WEST Tokamak maintained plasma for more than 22 minutes last week.
China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak maintained a steady-state high-confinement plasma operation for almost 18 minutes in January....
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