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The experiment was attained using just0.2 milligrams of deuterium-tritium fuel.
Why is JET being shutdown?
JETremained the worlds most advanced experimental fusion reactor ever made before it was shut down.
Its experiments were critical to the development of ITER and otherplanned fusion devices.
But now we are facing a huge gap in time between the two fusion experiments.
We need to bridge that gap.
ITER is only set to startdeuterium-tritium reactionsin2035 although it has already beendelayedseveral times.
There are political motivations at play, too.
In the wake of Brexit, the UK left the European Atomic Energy Community, which funded JET.
Can fusion deliver?
This meanswe have already failed to meet the Paris Agreement.
We are already facing the devastation from climate change on a global scale, she toldNew Scientist.
Story bySion Geschwindt
Sion is a freelance science and technology reporter, specialising in climate and energy.
