Korea's Fusion Reactor Broke Its Record for Holding Plasma
Mike McRae, SA
Barely a year after the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) broke one record for fusion, it's smashed it again, this time holding onto a churning whirlpool of 100 million degree plasma for a whole 30 seconds.
Though it's well short of the 101 seconds set by the Chinese Academy of Sciences earlier this year, it...