Inside the JET Fusion reactor — JET

Nuclear Fusion Record Smashed

But does this bring us closer to unlocking this utopian energy source?

A few days ago, South Korea’s Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) obliterated its own fusion record by sustaining a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius for an astonishing 48 seconds! For some sense of scale here, that is 17,857 times hotter than the surface of the Sun…