The Hefei Institute of Physical Science is conducting this experiment, which is known as the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST). China has already spent almost 6 billion yuan on this large-scale experiment in which exceptionally high temperatures have been used to boil hydrogen isotopes, fusing them and producing energy.

In a recent test, the gadget setup was a fusion reactor that functioned for about 20 minutes at a mind-boggling 70 million degrees Celsius. The machine aims to harness the power of nuclear fusion, a less researched method of generating nuclear energy. The arrangement is designed to imitate nuclear events that occur within the sun, where hydrogen and deuterium gases are employed as fuel. These studies might help researchers go one bit closer to 'unlimited renewable power.'