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The pioneering Joint European Torus (JET) has performed its final fusion research experiments just over four decades after it delivered its first pulse on 25 June 1983.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 22 December 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/JET-retires-after-40-years-and-105,842-pulses
Physicists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have proposed that the formation of "hills and valleys" in magnetic field lines could be the source of sudden collapses of heat ahead of disruptions that can damage doughnut-shaped tokamak fusion facilities. Their discovery could help overcome a critical challenge facing such facilities.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 01 October 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Princeton-physicists-make-plasma-confinement-break