In its final experiments before being shut down for good last year, the UK's JET reactor set a world record for the energy output of a fusion reaction
The UK’s 40-year-old fusion reactor achieved a world record for energy output in its final runs before being shut down for good, scientists have announced.59 megajoules of heat energy
This equates to a power output of 12.5 megawatts – enough to power 12,000 homes, said Mikhail Maslov of the UK Atomic Energy Authority at a press conference on 8 February.waste created by fission, but we don’t yet have a practical way to harness this process in a power plant. Scientists ran the last experiments with deuterium-tritium fuel at JET in October last year and other experiments continued until December. But the machine has now been shut down for good and it is being decommissioned over the next 16 years.
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