THE DUKE of Cambridge visited one of the hottest places in the Solar System today when he met scientists at a potentially world-changing energy project.
The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) at Culham Science Centre, near Abingdon, welcomed The Duke to mark the end of construction of MAST Upgrade, a nuclear fusion experiment.
His Royal Highness stood yards away from the MAST Upgrade chamber, where temperatures will soon be 50 million degrees celsius - more than three times hotter than the sun.
The five-year project aimed to build a machine capable of creating artificial stars, with The Duke running a test of a ‘plasma’ – the hot gas that will form inside MAST Upgrade when it operates.
The MAST Upgrade device starts up next year.
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