Science Island Cheer on the 100,000th Discharge of EAST

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) had its 100,000th discharge on 8 June, marking another memorable moment in its fifteen-year history since its first operation in 2006. This is just ten days after setting new world record at the end of May when they set a record for sustained heat in nuclear plasma－a temperature of 120 million C for 101 seconds. 

Four generation EAST team members gathered together in EAST control room from across China to share this moment.

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more than 200 people, including scientists, engineers and students, packing the Control Room, witnessed the discharge. (Image by EAST Team)

Cheers exploded loud and simultaneously the moment when the monitor in EAST Control Room flashed historic "100,000", marking the 100,000th discharge. (Image by EAST Team)