UK's nuclear fusion site ends experiments after 40 years
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The JET laboratory, the focus of European fusion experiments for decades, carries out its last test.
  • @[email protected]English
    6•1 year ago

    US, China, Russia, and the EU: this is too big to be done in a reasonable time frame by just one of us, so even though one half of us hates the other half, let’s cooperate.

    UK: hold my beer, YOLO, #WeThinkItsStill1850

    • @[email protected]English
      8•1 year ago

      JET = Joint European Torus

      It was a coalition of all EU countries. Switzerland (non EU) joined later and UK quit the coalition with Brexit but continued to see this project through.

      Their decision to break with the coalition is stupid, but I don’t see any reason why they can’t exchange knowledge in the future too.

      The JET was basically a result of European scientists being invited to USSR to verify their results. The world of science is often a lot more open than the political that way.