China's 'artificial-sun' in assembly: report

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China's 'artificial-sun' in assembly: report

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According to the report of People's Daily, Chinese scientists are striding forward to the goal for continuous supply of clear energy based on the principle of light and heat emission from solar fusion excited by thermonuclear fusion.

As learned from the Plasma Institute of Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) the first HTS nuclear fusion lab in the world, so-called "artificial sun" is being assembled and planned to be in operation in 2005 in Hefei, capital city of Anhui province in east China.

However, it is said that though the wonder of "artificial sun" has been created in the lab, the power it generates will not go beyond the lab into households in a short time, a dream that is to be realized in at least a span of fifty years.

By PD Online staff memeber Lijia

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