Machine designed to duplicate the circumstances inside a burning star shutting down
It was only some weeks in the past that scientists on the Joint European Torus (JET) in Oxfordshire introduced the nuclear fusion experiment had damaged a world report.The machine - designed to duplicate the circumstances inside a burning star - generated a five-second pulse of fusion, releasing 69 megajoules of power.
If JET was an influence plant, not an experiment, and that power harnessed, it may have powered 12,000 properties.But that pulse was to be JET's final.After 40 years of fusion science, it is being decommissioned.
Given the promise of fusion energy - offering close to limitless, emissions-free power - shutting down JET could sound like an odd transfer.
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The Joint European Torus in Oxfordshire is shutting down
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