The JET laboratory, the focus of European fusion experiments for decades, carries out its last test.
  • @Koof_on_the_RoofEnglish
    8•1 year ago

    If UK is going to go it’s own way, I don’t see why they don’t just keep the reactor going. Not that going it’s own way seems very sensible anyway.

    • @CheeseNoodleEnglish
      32•1 year ago

      I mean we’re increasing restrictions on solar and some fairly high profile politicans are talking about the lost benefits of oil and coal so… I’m pretty sure going our own way involves some kind of reversion to steam power medicine based on the four humours.

      • @ThePyroPythonEnglish
        20•1 year ago

        Nah, the Tories plan on burning poor people this winter, they’ll lure them in by promising they’ll be warm for the rest of their lives.

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Barry Green recounts the moment in June 1983 when the JET fusion laboratory in Oxford undertook its first experiment.

    The chosen model was tokamak, which uses magnetic fields to confine the plasma - a hot, ionised gas - inside a vessel.

    And the hope of producing enough energy to power homes remains a long way off - 59 MJ is only enough to boil about 60 kettles’ worth of water.

    Joelle Mailloux is the JET science programme leader overseeing the third round of deuterium-tritium experiments which end on Saturday.

    She says the key challenges they are focusing on are making the plasma more stable, spreading the power load and looking at improving materials in the reactor to withstand the conditions.

    Paul Methven, STEP programme director at the UK Atomic Energy Agency, told the BBC: "On endeavours like this, you need to be simultaneously really ambitious and also realistic.

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