Clean energy could be ‘closer than ever’ after a nuclear fusion machine smashed a record::JET’s final nuclear fusion experiment produced a record-breaking 69 megajoules of heat. Nice.

  • dee_dubs@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It’s ending because it’s old. JET has been running since the 80s. It’s successor is ITER, which ran into some delays, but is expected to be finished sometime next year.

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      5 months ago

      And which we (UK) have opted to not be part of.

      Instead, we are making a budget available to our own research facilities.

      It will be the utterly enormous, mind-blowingly vast sum of…

      …wait for it…

      600…

      million pounds!

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