Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak
also EAST
EAST aims to contribute studies of plasma physics, provide a scientific basis for the design and construction of experimental reactors, including ITER, as EAST has shape and equilibrium similar to ITER.
Quoted verbatim from the IAEA World Survey of Fusion Devices, not paraphrased.
- Type
- Fusion device
- Approach
- Tokamak
- Fuel
- D-D
- Country
- CN
- Status
- Operating
- Ownership
- public
Progression
Superseded results are kept rather than overwritten. A later figure that is lower than an earlier one is normal physics, and hiding it would be a form of falsification.
- 403 s 2023
- 1066 s 2025-01-20
- 1000 s
Measurements
1066 s Plasma duration claimed
measured 2025-01-20 · sustained
1.7 m Major radius claimed
0.4 m Minor radius claimed
1 MA Plasma current claimed
3.5 T On-axis magnetic field claimed
1000 s Plasma duration claimed
nominal
403 s Plasma duration superseded
measured 2023 · sustained
9.6 × 10¹⁸ m⁻³·keV·s Fusion triple product (nTτ_E) claimed
measured 2015 · shot 56933
2.1 keV Ion temperature claimed
measured 2015 · shot 56933
8.5 × 10¹⁹ m⁻³ Plasma density claimed
measured 2015 · shot 56933
0.054 s Energy confinement time (τ_E) claimed
measured 2015 · shot 56933