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JET VesselTwenty years ago the world’s first fusion experiments with the real fuel, a deuterium-tritium mixture, were conducted at JET.

16th day of November 2011 will be remembered in Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics in Greifswald as a significant day for all fusion research community in Europe.

Job well done: ITER-like-Wall Task Force Leaders (from left): Anthony Loving, Guy Matthews, Malcolm Kear, Valeria Riccardo. Absent: Eric VilledieuEighty-two thousand parts, assembled into 2880 items, installed in only 18 months by a newly-developed, state-of-the-art remote handling system  – this is what the chair of the ITER-Like Wall project board and JET-EFDA leader Francesco Romanelli summed up as a “splendid achievement”. Speaking at the final ITER-Like Wall project board meeting Dr Romanelli said the project was in many ways the parent of all of the recent upgrades to JET, and applauded the team’s contribution to the overall success of the shutdown.

JET restartWorld’s largest fusion experiment back in operation. After an 18-month shutdown to upgrade the machine and four months of commissioning, the Joint European Torus (JET), the world’s largest magnetic fusion device, is ready to start new experiments. The inside of the vessel now has a completely new wall. JET is the first fusion machine to test the materials that will be used inside the next-generation international experiment, ITER.

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Research projects carried out at the IPPLM are funded by the Polish Ministry of Education and Science, the National Science Centre and by the European Commission within the framework of EUROfusion Consortium under grant agreement No 101052200. Financial support comes also from the International Atomic Energy Agency, European Space Agency and LaserLab Consortium as well as from the Fusion for Energy Agency.

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