Rapt audience members watch Luca Snoj's lecture

Slovenian crowds get to the heart of ITER and JET

Ljubljana, Slovenia: A public lecture about fusion, including a live feed from JET and ITER, has lecture theatres overflowing.

As well as being artistic, JET's moody lighting in this picture has a scientific purpose - an investigation into reflections from its metallic surfaces.

Pump down begins

Maintenance completed, pump down has commenced on a “cleaner than expected” JET torus.

The neutron source safely encased in a one tonne polythene container is lowered into the remote handling transfer facility

Neutron calibration completed

It’s a tricky process making sure you are measuring your fusion power correctly.

Keith Musgrave oversees the management of all the IP created by JET.

Creativity and the next generation

The vast quantity of knowledge created at JET is in safe hands, easily accessible for future fusion scientists.

Ten years ago ten new countries joined the European Union.

10 new countries

Major changes were afoot for EFDA ten years ago, as ten countries signed a treaty to join the European Union.

Dignitaries gather their strength before tightening the bolt on the first component of JT60-SA, supplied by CIEMAT, in Spain.

European collaboration lays foundations for Japanese tokamak

The bolt-tightening ceremony at Japan’s JT-60 SA tokamak marks the success of a Europe-Japan agreement

Luca Garzotti (left) and Eva Belonohy in the JET control room

EFDA trainees kick goals

An injection of new talent into tokamak operations around Europe comes about thanks to EFDA’s goal-oriented training.

A BBC camera man captures the action in the remote handling control room

Amazing footage for BBC

A BBC film crew took over the JET experiment for a day, so they could film from some unusual vantage points.

Image: Tranquility 2 by Rob-Keller from flickr.com

Fusion draws on Japanese traditions

Japanese ceramics have a long history of elegance – now they are providing an elegant solution to tritium containment.

CCFE's Joana Silva explains fusion to a rapt audience at the Big Bang Fair

Fusion occurs in Big Bang

Thousands of students thronged to CCFE’s stand at the Big Bang Science Fair in London