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.

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Eighty-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.

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World’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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