Most powerful electric current
- Who
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- What
- 2000000 ampere(s)
- When
- April 1996
Most powerful electric current
The world record for the largest ever electrical current was achieved by scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA in April 1996. They sent a current of 2 million amperes per square centimetre down a superconducting wire. (Standard household wires can carry a current of less than 1,000 amperes/cm2.)