China's New-Generation 'Artificial Sun' Achieves Breakthrough

TapTechNews June 13th, according to CCTV News today, in the new-generation artificial sun 'China HL-3' project, for the first time discovered and achieved an advanced magnetic field structure in the world, which is of great significance for improving the control and operation capabilities of nuclear fusion devices.

'China HL-3' is currently the largest nuclear fusion large-scale scientific device with the highest design parameters in China, also known as China's new-generation 'artificial sun'.

At the end of last year, 'China HL-3' began to open to the global community. In the first round of international joint experiments this year, it attracted the participation of 17 world-renowned research institutes and universities including the French Atomic Energy Commission and Kyoto University in Japan. In this round of experiment, for the first time discovered and achieved a special advanced magnetic field structure in the world.

Controllable nuclear fusion, as a cutting-edge disruptive technology facing major national needs, has outstanding advantages such as abundant resources and being environment-friendly, and is one of the important ways to finally solve the human energy problem. According to the long-term development vision goal of China's nuclear industry, by the middle of this century, the application of nuclear fusion energy is to be achieved.

According to previous reports by TapTechNews, 'China HL-3' successfully achieved a high-constraint operation mode under 1 million amperes of plasma current in August 2023, marking that the operation level of China's magnetically confined nuclear fusion devices has entered the international forefront.