Experiments with the advanced new device will start in July or August. If the experiments prove successful, China will become the first country in the world to build a full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, nicknamed “artificial sun”, experts said.<\/p>\n
The project, dubbed EAST (experimental advanced superconducting Tokamak), is being undertaken by the Hefei-based Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It will require a total investment of nearly 300 million yuan (37 million U.S. dollars), only one fifteenth to one twentieth the cost of similar devices being developed in the other parts of the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m a cheap ethnic stereotype, but I’ve concluded that there are things you cut corners on, and things you don’t. When I was in Vegas and wanted to take a helicopter ride to the Grand Canyon, I decided to avoid the signs out on the strip that read, “Discount Helicopter Tours.” As I wrote a … <\/p>\n
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