China has delivered CHIEF1900, the world's most powerful hypergravity centrifuge with a capacity of 1,900 gravity-tonnes, to Zhejiang University for installation at its underground facility in Hangzhou, surpassing the previous record held by a U.S. Army Corps facility in Mississippi.
Developed by Shanghai Electric Nuclear Power Group and part of the $285 million CHIEF complex approved in 2021, the centrifuge will enable scientists to simulate catastrophic events like earthquakes and dam failures by compressing decades of stress into minutes through extreme gravitational forces.
The facility, located 15 meters underground to minimize vibrations, is designed as an international research platform for applications ranging from deep-ocean resource extraction to disaster mitigation and new materials synthesis.
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