The decommissioning of a "world-leading" nuclear fusion reactor has begun after 40 years of operation. The Joint European Torus (JET) facility in Culham, Oxfordshire, ended experiments in December.
JET (Joint European Torus ... A 2016 drawing of the different sections of the ITER fusion reactor which is currently being constructed. While on Earth we can find the remnants of natural fission ...
JET scientifically demonstrated that fusion energy is possible ... be obtained but also be sold is called Demo for Demonstration Reactor... (which is) the final step of research and development ...
After decades of nuclear fusion power being always ten years away, suddenly we are looking at a handful of endeavours striving to be the first to Q > 1, the moment when a nuclear fusion reactor ...
But the significance is that it validates design choices that have been made for an even bigger fusion reactor now being constructed in France. "The JET experiments put us a step closer to fusion ...
Most fusion reactors employ external magnets ... such as through the Joint European Taurus (JET) in Culham, Oxfordshire and the Spherical Tokomak for Energy Production (STEP) planned for ...
Such issues have led to a resurgence of interest in a third nuclear option, which combines aspects of both technologies in the form of the fusion–fission hybrid reactor. The fusion–fission ...