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In 1997, JET set the record for the closest approach to scientific breakeven. It attained Q = 0.67, producing 16 MW of fusion energy while injecting 24 MW of thermal power to heat the fuel, [26] a record that endured until 2021. [27] [28] This was also the record for greatest fusion power produced. [29] [30] In 1998, JET's engineers developed a ...
JT-60 (short for Japan Torus-60) is a large research tokamak, the flagship of the Japanese National Institute for Quantum Science and Technology's fusion energy directorate. As of 2023 the device is known as JT-60SA and is the largest operational superconducting tokamak in the world, [ 1 ] built and operated jointly by the European Union and ...
The JET tokamak in the UK produces 16 MW of fusion power - this remains the world record for fusion power until 2022 when JET sets an even higher record. Four megawatts of alpha particle self-heating was achieved.
Scientists in the UK announce a new nuclear fusion energy record, bringing the futuristic energy source a step closer to reality
The current record of fusion power generated by MCF devices is held by JET. In 1997, JET set the record of 16 megawatts of transient fusion power with a gain factor of Q = 0.62 and 4 megawatts steady state fusion power with Q = 0.18 for 4 seconds. [3] In 2021, JET sustained Q = 0.33 for 5 seconds and produced 59 megajoules of energy, beating ...
The most popular technology uses a donut-shaped machine called a tokamak. Fusion is near limitless, produces no planet-heating pollution and unlike fission, the nuclear technology the world ...
The record for Q ext (the theoretical Q value of D-T fusion as extrapolated from D-D results) in a tokamak is held by JT-60, with Q ext = 1.25, slightly besting JET's earlier Q ext = 1.14. In December 2022, the National Ignition Facility, an inertial confinement facility, reached Q = 1.54 with a 3.15 MJ output from a 2.05 MJ laser heating ...
ITER also represents the most typical fusion reactor at this point, which is the tokamak; this is a donut-shaped canister where extremely powerful magnets control a swirling plasma that reaches ...