Inside India’s ‘artificial sun’ mission and its race to unlock fusion energy
- India is developing an “artificial sun” using fusion technology to explore a cleaner, potentially endless energy source.
- India’s fusion programme uses tokamak technology to recreate the extreme heat and pressure needed for nuclear fusion.
- The project is part of a global fusion race involving the US, China, Japan and South Korea.
- Fusion aims to produce energy by joining light atomic nuclei, similar to the process that powers the Sun.
Source: firstpost.com
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