K-Star Reactor to sustain 100,000,000 ºC or more for at least 300 seconds by the end of 2025?

In 2020, during an experiment involving scientists at Seoul National University (SNU) in South Korea and Columbia University in the United States, an impressive record was broken: a nuclear fusion reactor managed to maintain temperatures above 100 million degrees Celsius(about 6x as high as the temperature of the sun, which reaches "only" 15,000,000 ° C) for 20 seconds. Known as the "Korean artificial sun", the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) reached 100 million degrees Celsius for the first time in 2018, but that only lasted 1.5 seconds. In 2019, it reached 8 seconds.

The new record is a step towards producing energy by nuclear fusion, considered by many to be a safe, clean, and renewable technology. The records that are broken each year, despite still being measure on a scale of seconds, show that science and technology in the area are evolving at a fast pace. Now, the next goal for KSTAR's is to reach 300 seconds (5 minutes) operating continuously at over 100,000,000 ° C by the year 2025.

If the K-Star Reactor manages to sustain a temperature of 100,000,000 ° C or more for at least 300 seconds by December 31, 2025, this market will be resolved as “Yes”.