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JET’s record result and the quest for fusion energy

 

JET’s record result and the quest for fusion energy

04 Apr 2022 James Dacey




One of the longest-running physics jokes is that, despite numerous promising breakthroughs, practical nuclear fusion will forever be 30 years away. Earlier this year, there was an exciting result in the UK that suggests that – sooner or later – fusion scientists will have the last laugh. The Joint European Torus (JET) nuclear-fusion experiment based in Oxfordshire, UK, more than doubled the amount of sustained fusion energy produced in a single “shot” – smashing a previous record that JET has held since 1997.


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In this episode of the Physics World Stories podcast, Andrew Gloster catches up with two engineers from the UK Atomic Energy Authority to learn more about this latest development. Leah Morgan, a physicist-turned-engineer explains why JET’s recent success is great news for the ITER project – a larger experimental fusion reactor currently under construction in Cadarache, France. Later in the episode, mechanical design engineer Helena Livesey talks about the important role of robotics in accessing equipment within the extreme conditions inside a tokamak device.

To hear from more scientists about the quest for practical nuclear fusion, you can also listen to this episode from Physics World’s 30th-anniversary podcast series.

James Dacey is a multimedia journalist based in Madrid


from physicsworld.com   11/5/2022

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