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> No other fusion power plant in the world has managed to run for more than ten seconds. This sentence is incorrect, I guess they meant at 100M degrees because
by speedgoose 6y ago
> No other fusion power plant in the world has managed to run for more than ten seconds.
This sentence is incorrect, I guess they meant at 100M degrees because some older tokamaks did run for longer than 10 seconds at lower temperature.
Like the Chinese one that ran for 100 seconds at 50M degrees, but 100M degrees for a short time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_Advanced_Superconducting_Tokamak https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_Advanced_Superc...