France has upped the ante in the quest for fusion power by maintaining a plasma reaction for over 22 minutes – a new record.

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Plasma in the WEST fusion reactor, pictured here, reached temperatures of 50 million ... degrees Celsius—90 million degrees Fahrenheit—which is hotter than the core of the sun. However, it did not ...

France's WEST tokamak set a record by sustaining plasma for 1,337 seconds, surpassing China's EAST. This milestone marks ...

Inside a donut-shaped enclosure at 15,000,000 degrees Celsius, Europe generates an endless amount of intense energy. WEST ...

French scientists have achieved a nuclear fusion breakthrough with the WEST reactor, maintaining plasma for over 22 minutes.

Unlike traditional nuclear fusion methods, it uses electromagnets ... its “electric gun” to ignite fuel in its test reactor’s core. In the Sun’s core, hydrogen fuses into lighter elements ...