KSTAR - South Korea's magnetic fusion device

[Carl White]

Recent news:

"Fusion research tokamak sets new record of 30 seconds in super-hot plasma"

30 seconds at 100 million degrees.

https://www.ajudaily.com/view/20211122133636438

[Skipjack]

Didn't EAST do that for over 100 seconds already?

[Carl White]

Didn't EAST do that for over 100 seconds already?

Yep. It exceeded 160 million degrees Celsius for 20 seconds too.

[Ivy Matt]

The news appears to be that KSTAR "broke its own record". You might think that meant it held the previous record, and that ought to be a reasonable assumption.

Lawyers, politicians, and headline writers.

[RERT]

This sounds interesting, a supposedly new operational mode to control instabilities in Tokamaks. I haven’t read the paper itself:

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/966909