Looking like a giant bellows is a prototype “bottle” designed to hold electrified gas to be used in JET (Joint European Taurus), the biggest thermonuclear experiment in the world. The aim of JET is to produce power from nuclear fusion, and the “bottle” has to withstand temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius as the gas inside it is electrified by 230 megawatts.
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Press, 19 August 1981, Page 17
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62Looking like a giant bellows is a prototype “bottle” designed to hold electrified gas to be used in JET (Joint European Taurus), the biggest thermonuclear experiment in the world. The aim of JET is to produce power from nuclear fusion, and the “bottle” has to withstand temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius as the gas inside it is electrified by 230 megawatts. Press, 19 August 1981, Page 17
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