Nuclear Fusion: UK Scientists Reach New Milestone

Recently, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority announced that scientists in the UK have managed to produce the largest amount of energy so far from a nuclear fusion reaction.

Key Highlights

  • Energy: The team of scientists at the Joint European Torus (JET) facility near Oxford in central England generated 59 megajoules of sustained energy during an experiment.
  • They sustained a super-hot plasma for 5 seconds during the thermonuclear fusion. This is more than double the record created in 1997 which produced 21.7 MJ of energy in 4 seconds.
  • JET: This site is the largest operational one of its kind in the ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
To get access to detailed content

Already a Member? Login here

Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material since 2018 of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Be an Annual Subscriber

Science & Technology