In China, a fusion reactor called Artificial Sun has been put into operation

China on Friday commissioned a new type of fusion reactor, known as an “artificial sun,” writes MTI, citing the Xinhua State News Agency. Tokamak HL-2M in Sichuan Province is the largest and most advanced research fusion reactor in China.

it can open new avenues in the search for renewable energy sources.

The reactor creates a magnetic field so strong that the nuclei can fuse with the heat it produces. The reactor can also generate temperatures in excess of 150 million degrees Celsius, which is ten times hotter than the interior of the Sun, which is why it was dubbed the “artificial Sun”. Nuclear fusion could be a new method of energy production, a long-term alternative to burning fossil fuels and controversial nuclear fission. The method is clean as it does not produce waste or greenhouse gases.

The principle of nuclear fusion has already been applied to hydrogen bombs and should not be confused with nuclear fission; the latter is used in conventional nuclear power plants. The eastern country is currently the largest polluter in the world, its economic growth is largely based on the use of fossil fuels, however, there is no other country that invests as much money in renewable energy as China.