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Newsletter | 2000 May

  • Year 2000 work programme and first experimental campaign

    The joint use of the JET facilities by the European fusion laboratories, signatories of EFDA, is strongly focused on the preparation of the next step: the planned fusion experimental reactor ITER. The experiments should provide a further consolidation of the scientific basis in plasma physics and engineering and the demonstration of operational [...]

  • A new wind blowing at JET

    After months of intensive preparation, the first secondees arrive at JET on Monday 29 May. An enthusiastic group, eager to start experimenting with the biggest fusion device in the world, for several of them, for the first time in their life. Notwithstanding the bank holidays, our UKAEA colleagues join in and during [...]

  • The Restart of JET

    The very first event of the year 2000, in preparation for the use of the JET facilities under EFDA, was their hand-over to the UKAEA. This occurred on 1 January in accordance with the statutes of the former JET Joint Undertaking. They were put in a passively safe state prior to hand-over [...]

  • Message from the EFDA Associate Leader for JET

    On the afternoon of the 31 May 2000 the first experiment on JET under the new EFDA framework started. Planned since the end of summer 1999, plasmas were produced on schedule, after several months of efforts of many technicians, engineers, physicists and managers from the operator (UKAEA), the EFDA Close Support Unit (EFDA-CSU) and [...]

  • Scientists involved

    The scientific programme of JET under EFDA is organised in the form of Task Forces, with their Leaders being the main actors responsible for the preparation and execution of the campaigns, as well as the analysis and the publication of the results. They coordinate the staff seconded from all the European laboratories [...]

  • JET Launch into Cyberspace

    With the advent of the new organization, the virtual Site boundary has been enlarged by thousands of kilometres (miles for some Europeans). Under the EFDA umbrella, the teams involved in experimentation on JET include participants in all 23 of the European Euratom Associations laboratories, and “work-at-distance” through “Cyberspace”, even on a very [...]