Chinese scientists claimed that their first experimental thermonuclear fusion test replicating sun’s energy generation process in the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor was successful. Organized by the Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Hefei , the experiment forced deuterium and tritium atoms together at a temperature of 100 million Celsius for 3 seconds and the super heated plasma could produce 200 kilo amperes.

Scientists say that they would ultimately want to create the longest fusion reactor run by creating plasma that could last 1000 consecutive seconds. Chinese scientists say that even this modest success means that they led competition by “at least a decade” and will make available the data of the test at the International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference in Austria .