Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research

Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) is South Korea’s magnetic fusion device operated by Korean Fusion Energy (KFE). It had created a new world record by reaching an ion temperature of over 100 million degrees Celsius for record 20 seconds. This surpasses 2019’s plasma operation that worked for 8 seconds. KSTAR reached 100 million degree temperature for the first time in 2018 for only 1.5 seconds.