The Joint European Torus, known as JET, was a magnetically confined nuclear fusion research device at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, operated as a joint European project from 1983 to 2023. In 1991 it became the first fusion device in the world to run on a fifty fifty mix of deuterium and tritium, the fuel combination intended for future fusion power plants, and in 1997 it set a fusion power record of 16 megawatts that stood until 2021. In its final experiments in October 2023 it produced 69.29 megajoules of fusion energy from a single pulse, before the machine was retired after 105,842 experimental pulses over its forty year operating life; its decommissioning is expected to continue until 2040.
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Facility TypeFusion research facility (tokamak) 1 LocationCulham Centre for Fusion Energy, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom 1 Commissioned YearJET is a pulsed research device rather than a continuous grid generator, so capacity-mw is left unfilled rather than forced; matches the live precedent on this atlas's National Ignition Facility (EntityId 265545), which also carries no capacity-mw. Connections
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Tokamak fusion research facility, Culham, United Kingdom; held the fusion energy output record for decades before ITER.
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JET began operation in 1983
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before the machine was retired after 105,842 experimental pulses over its forty year operating life; its decommissioning is expected to continue until 2040.
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