China’s latest experiments with its so‑called “artificial sun” have pushed nuclear fusion into territory many physicists long ...

Getting a significant energy return from tokamak-based nuclear fusion reactors depends for a large part on plasma density, but increasing said density is tricky, as beyond a certain point the ...

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, better known as the country’s “artificial sun,” has just done something fusion physicists long treated as impossible. By pushing plasma to ...

All of these new developments don’t mean that the sun is ready to give up its fusion monopoly, as many significant ...

HEFEI -- China is accelerating the transition of its nuclear fusion program from fundamental research to large-scale ...

By exceeding a long-standing density barrier, China’s EAST fusion reactor proved that tokamaks can pack way more atoms into its plasma before destabilizing.

A man visits the Fusion Energy Technology and Industry Conference 2026 in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, Jan. 16, 2026.

China's EAST nuclear fusion reactor has successfully kept plasma stable at extreme densities, passing a major fusion milestone and potentially bringing humanity closer to wielding near-limitless clean ...

A view of the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), dubbed China's "artificial sun," in Hefei, East China's Anhui Province Photo: VCG. China's Atomic Energy Law, a ...

Startorus Fusion, a Chinese startup that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance fusion performance, ...

Experiments at China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak have confirmed the existence of "a density-free region" of the tokamak, finding a method to break through the density limit and ...

China has officially implemented its updated atomic energy law, aimed at regulating and advancing the country’s nuclear ...