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Five seconds, 59 megajoules: A new record for tokamak fusion

Enlarge / The interior of JET, configured as a scale model for ITER, overlaid with an image of the plasma present in the tokamak during experiments. (credit: EUROfusion ) On Wednesday, the EUROfusion consortium announced that the Joint European Torus (JET), located near Oxford in the UK, had set a new record for released energy. […]

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More Effective tokamak Can follow ITER’s Combination footsteps 

Expand / / The magnetic fields in a tokamak. Based on who you ask, mix electricity is {} here (but nobody will buy my sekrit design! ) ) , never likely to occur (so quit wasting money!) , or even a challenging problem that may be a partial remedy to a much harder issue. The […]