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Beijing: China has completed the maiden trial run of the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) which aims to explore infinite and clean energy resources of nuclear fusion 2006, the state media reported on Friday. The trial run was held by the Hefei Institute of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui province on Thursday. The focal parts — low temperature and magnet electricity conducting, have passed the test, which makes a strong basis for the use of nuclear fusion within this year. By then, the institute will be the first in the world to have built an all-superconducting non-circular section nuclear fusion experiment facility, generally known as an artificial sun. With energy resource crisis threatening the world, scientists recommend the extraction of deuterium from sea water and the ignition of nuclear fusion of this element in temperatures as high as 100 million degrees Celsius.

PTI

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