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Feb 8, 2024 · February 8, 2024. EUROfusion news. In a major scientific achievement, European researchers at the Joint European Torus (JET) facility have set a new world energy record of 69 megajoules released in sustained and controlled fusion energy.
The Joint European Torus (JET) was a magnetically confined plasma physics experiment, located at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire, UK. Based on a tokamak design, the fusion research facility was a joint European project with the main purpose of opening the way to future nuclear fusion grid energy.
JET is the world’s largest and most advanced tokamak. Plasmas in JET are hotter than anywhere in the Solar System. Operated by Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, the Joint European Torus (JET) is the focal point of the European fusion research programme. JET was designed to study fusion in conditions approaching those needed for a power plant.
JET, the Joint European Torus, is EUROfusion's flagship device. It is housed at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK. JET is currently the largest tokamak in the world and the only one capable of operating with a Deuterium-Tritium fuel.
Feb 12, 2024 · Using advanced scenarios to structure and control their plasma, the researchers set a new fusion energy record of 69.26 megajoules of heat released during a single pulse in JET. Released over six seconds from only 0.21 milligrams of fuel, the energy record equals the energy released from burning 2 kilograms of coal.
Aug 20, 2020 · The exterior of Europe’s JET tokamak at Culham, a doughnut-shaped magnetic confinement device for fusion energy. At JET, European scientists smash hydrogen atoms together in a hot plasma at...
Feb 14, 2022 · JET—the Joint European Torus*, used by 4,800 EUROfusion consortium experts, students and staff from across Europe—has set a world record for the most energy produced in a single fusion shot, generating 59 megajoules** of heat from fusion reactions in a sustained manner.
