"Korean Fusion Reactor Achieves Record 100M Degrees for 100 Seconds"

The Korean Fusion Reactor, KSTAR, has broken its own record by sustaining a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius for 48 seconds and containing hot plasma in high-confinement mode for 102 seconds, marking significant progress in nuclear fusion research. The reactor, nicknamed the Korean artificial sun, aims to achieve 300 seconds of burning plasma by 2026 and is seen as a crucial step towards the development of full-scale nuclear fusion reactors like ITER and DEMO, which could potentially generate electricity and significantly more energy than they consume.