The powering up of HL-2M Tokamak, China’s newest nuclear fusion research device, last Friday was hailed by the country’s media as the “rise of an artificial sun”. It was not. The sun has burned ...

China on Friday made another step forward in its quest for clean energy through controlled nuclear fusion, as it commissioned its new “artificial sun” – a new generation nuclear fusion reactor ...

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China on Friday commissioned its first nuclear-powered “artificial sun”. The China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) said the HL-2M Tokamak “artificial sun” uses a “powerful magnetic field to fuse ...

China's HL-2M tokamak, commonly known as the new-generation "artificial sun," was powered up and then completed its first plasma discharge on Dec. 4, laying a solid foundation for building the country ...

When it comes to deriving energy from atoms, there are two ways to do it. Nuclear fission, which is a destructive way, where an atom is split into two to produce energy, and then there is nuclear ...