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JET’s final deuterium-tritium experiment results revealed one year on

One year after the conclusion of the Joint European Torus (JET)’s final scientific experiments, crucial findings are emerging that will play a key role in advancing future fusion machines. These findings have resulted in the submission of 96 research papers…

Michael BridgeDecember 16, 2024

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Fusion energy facility JET demonstrates use of laser-based diagnostic to monitor tritium

Fusion energy scientists and engineers at the Joint European Torus (JET) have developed a world leading method involving lasers to release and measure tritium trapped in fusion energy tokamaks. Most approaches to creating commercial fusion favour the use two hydrogen…

Michael BridgeDecember 7, 2023

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JET experiments to test electronics in fusion environments

A joint study by the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), CERN, EUROfusion, CEA-IRFM, Aix-Marseille University (AMU), CNRS and University of Rennes, at the Joint European Torus (JET) facility in Culham, Oxfordshire, will investigate the impact of neutrons on the performance…

Michael BridgeOctober 5, 2023

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Scientific community to conduct final tritium experiments at Joint European Torus

The start of the final deuterium-tritium experiments at the Joint European Torus (JET) take place today at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) in Culham, Oxfordshire. JET is currently the world’s largest and most powerful operational tokamak, and the only…

Michael BridgeAugust 31, 2023

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JET set for its 40th birthday

Four decades of record-breaking progress in fusion energy One of the world’s largest and most advanced fusion energy tokamaks turns 40 on Sunday 25 June. Originally designed to run experiments for eight years, the Joint European Torus (JET) is being…

Michael BridgeJune 23, 2023

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Fusion energy record demonstrates powerplant future

Landmark results from EUROfusion scientists and engineers at world-leading UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Joint European Torus (JET) facility in Oxford Record-breaking 59 megajoules of sustained fusion energy demonstrates powerplant potential and strengthens case for ITER Fusion energy is crucial in…

Curtis WoodleyFebruary 9, 2022

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Watch iconic fusion energy machine’s 100,000th ‘pulse’

Iconic fusion energy machine JET – which reaches controlled temperatures 10 times hotter than the core of the sun – completed its 100,000th live pulse last night. Weighing 2,800 tonnes, the same as 14 blue whales, the Joint European Torus (JET)…

Nick HollowayJanuary 19, 2022

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CHIMERA set to transform the world of fusion component testing

Construction of a unique testing machine for fusion components is underway at UKAEA. The machine, known as CHIMERA (or Combined Heating and Magnetic Research Apparatus), will be located at UKAEA’s new Fusion Technology Facility in South Yorkshire, UK. When it…

Nick HollowayApril 19, 2021

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JET’s final deuterium-tritium experiment results revealed one year on

Fusion energy facility JET demonstrates use of laser-based diagnostic to monitor tritium

JET experiments to test electronics in fusion environments

Scientific community to conduct final tritium experiments at Joint European Torus

JET set for its 40th birthday

Fusion energy record demonstrates powerplant future

Watch iconic fusion energy machine’s 100,000th ‘pulse’

CHIMERA set to transform the world of fusion component testing

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