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France’s Nuclear Reactor Maintains 90 Million°F Plasma for a Record 22 Minutes France has achieved a historic breakthrough in nuclear fusion research after its WEST (Tungsten Environment in Steady-state Tokamak) reactor successfully sustained plasma at over 90 million degrees Fahrenheit for 22 minutes and 17 seconds—the longest duration ever recorded at such extreme temperatures. To put this into perspective, the plasma inside the reactor was hotter than the core of the Sun, pushing fusion scien