Fusionsanlage JET stellt Energie-Weltrekord auf.

JET fusion device sets energy world record.

FRANCE; UNITED Kingdom

The fusion facility JET in Culham, UK, has set a new world record for energy. Record values of fusion energy were achieved during experiments with deuterium-tritium fuel. The facility is preparing for the transition to the international fusion large-scale experiment ITER, which is currently being built in southern France. JET generated stable plasmas that released an energy of 59 megajoules. However, the facility is too small to gain net energy, which will only be possible with ITER. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers inormation on the European joint project JET, the Joint European Torus in Culham near Oxford, England in fusion power plants should fuse the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium, modeled on the sun, thereby releasing large amounts of energy. It mentions previous carbon lining of the plasma vessel was replaced by a mixture of beryllium and tungsten between 2009 and 2011, as is also planned for ITER.

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