{"id":4396,"date":"2006-07-25T13:07:21","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T13:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4396"},"modified":"2006-07-25T13:07:21","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T13:07:21","slug":"china-prepares-its-first-plasma-discharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/china-prepares-its-first-plasma-discharge\/","title":{"rendered":"China Prepares its First Plasma Discharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recall<a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/mt-archives\/004941.php\"> China&#8217;s fusion station project<\/a>?<\/p>\n<div class=\"blocked\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Spider-Man-2-screen1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/images\/Spider-Man-2-screen1.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"229\" width=\"329\" align=\"right\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news73027374.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">The first plasma discharge from China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s experimental advanced superconducting research center \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the so-called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153artificial sun\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is set to occur next month.<\/p>\n<p>The discharge, expected about Aug. 15, will be conducted at Science Island in Hefei, in east China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Anhui Province, the Peoples Daily reported Monday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists told the newspaper a successful test will mean the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first nuclear fusion device of its kind will be ready to go into actual operation, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n<p>The plasma discharge will draw international attention since some scientists are concerned with risks involved in such a process. But Chinese researchers involved in the project say any radiation will cease once the test is completed.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment will take place in a structure made of reinforced concrete, with five-foot-thick walls and a three-foot-thick roof.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=2842\" class=\"external external_icon\">warren ellis<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recall China&#8217;s fusion station project? The first plasma discharge from China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s experimental advanced superconducting research center \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the so-called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153artificial sun\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is set to occur next month. The discharge, expected about Aug. 15, will be conducted at Science Island in Hefei, in east China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Anhui Province, the Peoples Daily reported Monday. Scientists told the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}