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China has fired up the world's largest superconducting magnet for nuclear fusion. Built for the CRAFT "artificial sun" project in Hefei, the toroidal-field coil weighs 582 tonnes, stores three times the energy of the equivalent magnet at the international ITER reactor, and is designed to trap a plasma hotter... show more

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🚨China Just Made a 582 TONNE Fusion-Energy Breakthrough! China’s just completed a 582 tonne toroidal field superconducting magnet, it is now the largest superconducting magnet ever constructed for a fusion reactor. Developed by the Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the magnet has officially passed expert review and represents one of the most significant milestones yet in humanity’s pursuit of controlled nuclear fusion.

🚨China Just Made a 582 TONNE Fusion-Energy Breakthrough! China’s just completed a 582 tonne toroidal field superconducting magnet, it is now the largest superconducting magnet ever constructed for a fusion reactor. Developed by the Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the magnet has officially passed expert review and represents one of the most significant milestones yet in humanity’s pursuit of controlled nuclear fusion.

Jay Anderson

163,894 views • 7 days ago

China says it will generate its first electricity from nuclear fusion around 2030 — after two 582-tonne toroidal field magnets, the largest superconducting magnets ever built for a fusion device, passed full-load testing in July 2026. Behind that date sit two "artificial suns": the EAST tokamak in Hefei, world record holder for sustaining a 100-million-degree plasma for 1,066 seconds, and the HL-3 tokamak in Chengdu, which has pushed atomic nuclei to 117 million degrees Celsius — nearly eight times hotter than the Sun's core. Let’s break down how a tokamak actually works, what China's fusion records really mean, the roadmap from 2027 to 2050 — and the honest catch nobody mentions. #NuclearFusion #ArtificialSun #FusionEnergy

China says it will generate its first electricity from nuclear fusion around 2030 — after two 582-tonne toroidal field magnets, the largest superconducting magnets ever built for a fusion device, passed full-load testing in July 2026. Behind that date sit two "artificial suns": the EAST tokamak in Hefei, world record holder for sustaining a 100-million-degree plasma for 1,066 seconds, and the HL-3 tokamak in Chengdu, which has pushed atomic nuclei to 117 million degrees Celsius — nearly eight times hotter than the Sun's core. Let’s break down how a tokamak actually works, what China's fusion records really mean, the roadmap from 2027 to 2050 — and the honest catch nobody mentions. #NuclearFusion #ArtificialSun #FusionEnergy

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🇨🇳 China has successfully tested world's most powerful superconducting magnet for its nuclear fusion project This breakthrough enhances the ability to confine fusion reactions without the plasma touching reactor walls, marking a significant step toward achieving sustained & limitless CLEAN energy with ZERO carbon emissions It's one of the steps in building an "artificial sun" *Europe is left behind with its "green energy" projects that have just managed to ruin 🇩🇪Germany's energy infrastructure...

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China gets closer to 'artificial sun’ after successfully testing world’s largest fusion magnet The 582-ton magnet is key to a reactor that could one day produce clean, nearly unlimited energy It’s a major step toward China’s goal of generating fusion electricity by ~2030

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China is building an “artificial sun” in Hefei, Anhui. The Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (#BEST) is set for completion in 2027 and could become the first in human history to generate electricity from fusion.🌞

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Mao Ning 毛宁

174,693 views • 9 months ago

Humanity stands on the threshold of a new energy era. In Hefei, eastern China, the next-generation "artificial sun" known as BEST is designed to transform fusion from a science experiment into a real-world power source. Standing for Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak, the reactor’s mission is to achieve “burning plasma,” where the fusion reaction generates its own sustaining heat. This is essential for the industry's holy grail: net energy gain. Targeting a 20 to 200 megawatt output (enough to power tens of thousands of households), BEST plans to demonstrate electricity generation by 2030. As a member of ITER—the world’s largest international fusion project in France—China contributes key components and shares research outcomes. Operating within frameworks like the “Hefei Fusion Declaration,” BEST serves as an open platform, pooling data and resources to accelerate the global transition to abundant, zero-carbon energy. This collaboration is proving that fusion is no longer just a distant dream, but a viable future solution.

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So how do you confine a superhot, 100M°C fusion plasma? With superstrong magnets, of course. 🧲 We've now installed three of the 18 toroidal field (TF) magnets needed for our SPARC fusion demonstration machine. TF magnets are one of the three major magnet types we'll use in SPARC (the others being the poloidal field and central solenoid magnets) to corral the plasma once the machine is operating. Because plasma is made up of charged particles, it responds to a magnetic field. It's a technique refined over dozens of earlier tokamaks built around the world that manage this highly energetic cloud of particles that's hotter than the center of the sun. #SPARC #Magnets #FusionEnergy

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China launched the world's largest centrifuge in terms of capacity, capable of generating 300 times Earth's gravity for a load up to 20 tonnes.

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Here we go… This is the moment our ST40 centre column is lifted out. A bit like open-heart surgery on a tokamak. It’s a delicate operation, and a huge milestone for ST40. The centre column has had a tough life, acting as the core of the toroidal magnetic field coil in the world’s highest-field spherical tokamak. After more than 5,000 plasma pulses, it has helped generate magnetic fields above 2 Tesla at the plasma core, confining plasma at temperatures of more than 100 million °C, the threshold for #fusion. Next up, we install the new and improved centre column built by our partners at The Rockwood Group. This is all part of ST40’s major upgrade programme with U.S. Department of Energy and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, helping transform it into one of the most reactor-relevant fusion devices in the world. What began as an experimental tokamak is becoming something much bigger: a customer testbed for the technologies and expertise needed to put #fusionenergy onto the grid⚡ And for anyone wondering what the centre column actually does… 👇 It forms the inner limb of each turn of the toroidal field coil. Its 24 wedges each carry up to 200 kA of current, generating the powerful magnetic fields needed to confine the plasma. Wrapped around the wedges, a 192-turn central solenoid helps drive and sustain the plasma current, after merging-compression start-up. An impressive piece of equipment with an equally impressive track record! #Fusion #FusionEnergy #Innovation

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61,286 views • 1 year ago

Honoured to meet ITER Director General Pietro Barabaschi, who has dedicated his life to Fusion Energy! Inspired by his lifelong dedication in the pursuit of the holy grail of infinite clean energy. ITER is fortunate to have him lead the Organization. Visited the heart of the Tokomak. One day, very soon, this will contain plasma at 150 million degrees (hotter than the ☀️) The future is super exciting! INOXCVA is proud to have contributed towards this mission.

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Siddharth Jain

24,451 views • 1 year ago

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The whole world is going crazy for Labubu. It will be the next Hello Kitty, but this time, born in China. China used to be the world's factory of toys, but Labubu has led "Made in China" into "Born in China". This is a sign of the rise of China's soft power.

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Li Zexin

32,343 views • 1 year ago

New year, new major milestone: We have completed, delivered, and mounted our first magnet for SPARC inside Tokamak Hall ✅ 🧲 . The significance of this toroidal field (TF) magnet achievement can't be overstated. In many ways, its story is the CFS story. Back when the company started in 2018, some thought creating a TF magnet with high-temperature superconductor (HTS) was a farfetched idea. But our founders' resolve to develop this key innovation unlocked our new pathway to a smaller, more economical fusion power plant. This toroidal field (TF) magnet is one of 18 that'll be threaded around the vacuum vessel to help tame and confine the superhot plasma once our SPARC tokamak is operational. The vacuum vessel, the donut-shaped container at the heart of the machine as devoid of air as outer space, offers the extreme conditions needed for fusion. The TF magnets help create a magnetic bottle, confining the fusion plasma to keep it away from the vessel walls that would cool it down. Read more on our blog: #PowerMoves #Magnets #SPARC #FusionEnergy #StarBuilders

New year, new major milestone: We have completed, delivered, and mounted our first magnet for SPARC inside Tokamak Hall ✅ 🧲 . The significance of this toroidal field (TF) magnet achievement can't be overstated. In many ways, its story is the CFS story. Back when the company started in 2018, some thought creating a TF magnet with high-temperature superconductor (HTS) was a farfetched idea. But our founders' resolve to develop this key innovation unlocked our new pathway to a smaller, more economical fusion power plant. This toroidal field (TF) magnet is one of 18 that'll be threaded around the vacuum vessel to help tame and confine the superhot plasma once our SPARC tokamak is operational. The vacuum vessel, the donut-shaped container at the heart of the machine as devoid of air as outer space, offers the extreme conditions needed for fusion. The TF magnets help create a magnetic bottle, confining the fusion plasma to keep it away from the vessel walls that would cool it down. Read more on our blog: #PowerMoves #Magnets #SPARC #FusionEnergy #StarBuilders

Commonwealth Fusion Systems

15,298 views • 7 months ago

Spanning from the 3rd generation reactor Hualong One, to the Small Module Reactor Linglong One; from the Nuclear Medicine to the China Knowledge Large Model, China Nuclear Corporation is feature by various brands. A brand is a comprehensive embodiment of an enterprise's competitiveness and an important symbol of high-quality development. China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), from serving the global energy transition, to safeguarding people's better lives with nuclear technology, and to contributing to the development of human future energy, has achieved a series of major technological breakthroughs and built a number of key brands.

CNNC

37,358 views • 9 months ago

One is 6 times more likely to have a package stolen in the USA than in China. One is 13 times more likely to be the victim of a homicide in the USA than in China. One is also about 8 times more likely to end up a prisoner in the US than in China. Can one find videos of crimes in China? Of course. There are 1.4 billion people in China. One can probably find a video of just about anything. But when one looks for content to prove their hateful opinion, instead of looking at the facts, they are lying and misreprenting reality. There are an increasingly isolated group of China-haters, living outside of China, trying to unfairly frame China as scary. Don't believe the hate. Come to China and experience it for yourself. That reality: China is a VERY High Trust Society. #HighTrustChina #China #StopAsianHate

One is 6 times more likely to have a package stolen in the USA than in China. One is 13 times more likely to be the victim of a homicide in the USA than in China. One is also about 8 times more likely to end up a prisoner in the US than in China. Can one find videos of crimes in China? Of course. There are 1.4 billion people in China. One can probably find a video of just about anything. But when one looks for content to prove their hateful opinion, instead of looking at the facts, they are lying and misreprenting reality. There are an increasingly isolated group of China-haters, living outside of China, trying to unfairly frame China as scary. Don't believe the hate. Come to China and experience it for yourself. That reality: China is a VERY High Trust Society. #HighTrustChina #China #StopAsianHate

Jason Smith - 上官杰文

20,330 views • 1 year ago

$Elon Musk just exposed the most catastrophic energy blindspot in the entire AI arms race. The West is still debating which twigs to burn. China is capturing the sun. Musk: “People just don’t understand how solar is everything. Compared to the sun, all other energy sources are like cavemen throwing some twigs into a fire.” Every natural gas plant. Every nuclear reactor. Every experimental fusion project being debated in Washington right now. Twigs. Musk: “We have a giant free fusion reactor that shows up every day. It’s farcical for us to create little fusion reactors.” And then he gave the most clarifying statistic in the entire energy debate. Musk: “The sun is over 99.8% of all mass in the solar system. Jupiter is around 0.1%. So even if you burnt Jupiter, the energy produced by the sun would still round up to 100%.” Musk: “And then if you teleported three more Jupiters into our solar system and burnt them too, it would still round up.” The sun is not an energy source. It is the only energy source. Everything else is rounding error. China already knows this. While American tech executives beg for permits to build natural gas plants, China crossed 1,000 gigawatts of installed solar capacity in 2025. More than the rest of the world combined. They are not holding summits about it. They are not commissioning reports about it. They are building it. Harvesting the free fusion reactor that arrives every morning at zero cost and feeding it directly into their AI data centers. The AI race is not an algorithm race. It is an electro-industrial race. You cannot build superintelligence without infinite compute. You cannot have infinite compute without infinite energy. And right now, the United States is losing the energy war while holding committee meetings about which twigs to burn next. China built the energy-compute flywheel. Cheap, scalable, infinite solar power feeding AI models at a fraction of the cost. Compounding every single day. The nation that captures the sun’s output will hold a permanent monopoly on global intelligence. The nation that doesn’t will spend the next decade trying to understand how it lost. Everyone else gets left holding the twigs.$

Elon Musk just exposed the most catastrophic energy blindspot in the entire AI arms race. The West is still debating which twigs to burn. China is capturing the sun. Musk: “People just don’t understand how solar is everything. Compared to the sun, all other energy sources are like cavemen throwing some twigs into a fire.” Every natural gas plant. Every nuclear reactor. Every experimental fusion project being debated in Washington right now. Twigs. Musk: “We have a giant free fusion reactor that shows up every day. It’s farcical for us to create little fusion reactors.” And then he gave the most clarifying statistic in the entire energy debate. Musk: “The sun is over 99.8% of all mass in the solar system. Jupiter is around 0.1%. So even if you burnt Jupiter, the energy produced by the sun would still round up to 100%.” Musk: “And then if you teleported three more Jupiters into our solar system and burnt them too, it would still round up.” The sun is not an energy source. It is the only energy source. Everything else is rounding error. China already knows this. While American tech executives beg for permits to build natural gas plants, China crossed 1,000 gigawatts of installed solar capacity in 2025. More than the rest of the world combined. They are not holding summits about it. They are not commissioning reports about it. They are building it. Harvesting the free fusion reactor that arrives every morning at zero cost and feeding it directly into their AI data centers. The AI race is not an algorithm race. It is an electro-industrial race. You cannot build superintelligence without infinite compute. You cannot have infinite compute without infinite energy. And right now, the United States is losing the energy war while holding committee meetings about which twigs to burn next. China built the energy-compute flywheel. Cheap, scalable, infinite solar power feeding AI models at a fraction of the cost. Compounding every single day. The nation that captures the sun’s output will hold a permanent monopoly on global intelligence. The nation that doesn’t will spend the next decade trying to understand how it lost. Everyone else gets left holding the twigs.

Dustin

47,011 views • 5 months ago

🇨🇳 CHINA BREAKS MAGNETIC FIELD RECORD WITH SUPERCONDUCTING TECH China just cranked out the world’s strongest steady magnetic field: 351,000 gauss. That’s 35.1 tesla - no, not the car - and it's a big deal for fusion energy, space tech, MRI machines, and even levitating trains. It ran stable for 30 minutes, which in science terms is forever. Source: CGTN

🇨🇳 CHINA BREAKS MAGNETIC FIELD RECORD WITH SUPERCONDUCTING TECH China just cranked out the world’s strongest steady magnetic field: 351,000 gauss. That’s 35.1 tesla - no, not the car - and it's a big deal for fusion energy, space tech, MRI machines, and even levitating trains. It ran stable for 30 minutes, which in science terms is forever. Source: CGTN

Mario Nawfal

78,539 views • 10 months ago