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Fusion energy record demonstrates powerplant future

"Landmark results from EUROfusion scientists and engineers at world-leading UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Joint European Torus (JET) facility in Oxford.

"Record-breaking 59 megajoules of sustained fusion energy demonstrates powerplant potential and strengthens case for ITER."

"The record and scientific data from these crucial experiments are a major boost for ITER, the larger and more advanced version of JET. ITER is a fusion research mega-project supported by seven members – China, the European Union, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the USA – based in the south of France, to further demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion energy."

Following Brexit the UK is still involved with ITER but not as a core member country.

Source: ccfe.ukaea.uk

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