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So I heard in the radio today about China's "Artificial sun". There is this hype about it having 5x the temperature of the core of the sun.

It is, as I suspected, a fusion reactor. I admit I do not remember figures by heart, but I recall that in our fusion reactors we typically achieve more temperature but less pressure than the sun itself. At any rate, the challenge is to draw the energy back to energy, and not as much to create these conditions.

So, my question is:

Is that title "Artificial Sun" just marketing, or something that stems from the Chinese language, or does this reactor really have some vast difference than other experimental fissionfusion reactors?

So I heard in the radio today about China's "Artificial sun". There is this hype about it having 5x the temperature of the core of the sun.

It is, as I suspected, a fusion reactor. I admit I do not remember figures by heart, but I recall that in our fusion reactors we typically achieve more temperature but less pressure than the sun itself. At any rate, the challenge is to draw the energy back to energy, and not as much to create these conditions.

So, my question is:

Is that title "Artificial Sun" just marketing, or something that stems from the Chinese language, or does this reactor really have some vast difference than other experimental fission reactors?

So I heard in the radio today about China's "Artificial sun". There is this hype about it having 5x the temperature of the core of the sun.

It is, as I suspected, a fusion reactor. I admit I do not remember figures by heart, but I recall that in our fusion reactors we typically achieve more temperature but less pressure than the sun itself. At any rate, the challenge is to draw the energy back to energy, and not as much to create these conditions.

So, my question is:

Is that title "Artificial Sun" just marketing, or something that stems from the Chinese language, or does this reactor really have some vast difference than other experimental fusion reactors?

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China's "Artificial sun"

So I heard in the radio today about China's "Artificial sun". There is this hype about it having 5x the temperature of the core of the sun.

It is, as I suspected, a fusion reactor. I admit I do not remember figures by heart, but I recall that in our fusion reactors we typically achieve more temperature but less pressure than the sun itself. At any rate, the challenge is to draw the energy back to energy, and not as much to create these conditions.

So, my question is:

Is that title "Artificial Sun" just marketing, or something that stems from the Chinese language, or does this reactor really have some vast difference than other experimental fission reactors?