An exercise in choreography
During one busy weekend in January, while plasma operations had paused, another upgrade was installed on JET. The item in question is called a ‘collimator’. It weighs about 2 tonnes and it is made of layers of lead and polythene, contained in a stainless steel envelope. To understand what a [...]
Thinking outside the box
Duarte Borba plans to take an international perspective on fusion in his new role as senior advisor to the EFDA leader.
New chair of ITER council visits JET
A delegation of officials from Japan visit JET for high level discussions
Wendelstein 7-X outer shell closed
The famous curved coils of the stellerator have been locked away.
ICRH works, ducts conditioned, maximum power delivered
Good progress is now being made with JET’s additional heating systems. The ICRH system is working routinely, and significant amounts of power are also being injected using the Neutral Beam Injection systems. As you may know, JET’s NBI is divided into two separate Neutral Injection Boxes, (NIBs), located diametrically opposite [...]
JET begins answering ITER’s questions
JET’s 2012 experiments and interventions have been planned in a successful general planning meeting.
