China builds artificial sunflower

Scientists around the globe have closed in a race to build the world's first nuclear fusion reactor. The winner will unlock a clean energy source without unlimited energy worth billions that some believe can save the planet from the climate change crisis.

Scientists at the China Institute of Physical Sciences announced that their smelting reactor reached 100 million degrees Celsius on Tuesday, or six times more than the core of the sun, which totals about 15 million degrees Celsius.

Tomamac Advanced Experimental Advanced Superconstructing (EAST) is to better understand the process of joining before building a complete reactor. Nuclear fusion reactors work differently from core-sharing reactors, as they unite two cores rather than divide them.

A practical reactor of the nuclear union should not only be able to maintain extreme temperatures but also remain stable at these temperatures for long periods of time.

Tokamak is the most developed magnetic closure system in the world and is the basis for designing many modern union reactors. It includes light elements, such as hydrogen, hitting together for forming the heavier elements, such as helium. In order for the union to occur, hydrogen atoms are placed under heat and high pressure until they can be together.

Tokamac Energy, an Oxfordshire-based company, claims it will build a power production sector by 2030.