Joint European Torus
nuclear physics facility
Also known as: JET
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applications of plasma
- In plasma: Applications of plasmas
…machine called the JET (Joint European Torus) was able to generate 1.7 million watts of fusion power for almost 2 seconds after researchers injected titrium into the JET’s magnetically confined plasma. It was the first successful controlled production of fusion power in such a confined medium.
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tokamak facility
- In fusion reactor: Magnetic confinement
…large tokamak facilities are the Joint European Torus (JET), a multinational western European venture operated in England; the Tokamak-60 (JT-60) of the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute; and the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in New Jersey, respectively.
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