Researchers in France have set an impressive new record. For 22 breathtaking minutes, blazing-hot plasma swirled inside the WEST tokamak, setting a new world record for plasma duration.

France has upped the ante in the quest for fusion power by maintaining a plasma reaction for over 22 minutes – a new record. The milestone was reached on Feb. 12 at the Commissariat à l ...

The WEST tokamak machine in southern France managed to maintain plasma for 1,337 seconds on Feb 12, France’s Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) said in a statement.

Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream ...

This is what the WEST reactor in France accomplished last week by keeping a plasma reaction going for 1,337 seconds, or over 22 minutes. The existing record of 1,066 seconds —itself more than double ...

France is to begin clinical trials involving transfusions of blood plasma from coronavirus survivors into patients who have severe symptoms in a bid to treat the illness, the institutions involved ...

French scientists have reached a ‘crucial milestone’ in the long road towards nuclear fusion by managing to maintain raging-hot plasma for a record 22 minutes, officials have said.

The WEST tokamak machine in southern France managed to maintain plasma for 1,337 seconds on February 12, France›s Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) said in a statement. This “smashed” the previous record ...