You may have heard about the great achievement of Uk based scientist who smashed the nuclear fusion record. So, recentlyBritish scientists came across the media and says that they have made great strides in their quest to develop practical fusion.
This achievement is welcomed as a “milestone” on the way to harnessing the power of the stars for cheap and clean energy on Earth. According to the British Atomic Energy Agency, Wednesday, the Joint European Torus (JET) near Oxford in central England produced 59 megajoules of sustained energy in experiments late last year, setting its world record in 1997.
The Officials said in a statement that the December 21 results are “the clearest evidence in the world of the potential of fusion power to provide safe and sustainable low-carbon energy.” The British Minister of Science, George Freeman, also welcomed the “results of the milestone.”
Freeman said, “They are evidence of the fact that pioneering research and innovation, done here in the UK and collaboration with partners across Europe, is making fusion a reality,” The donut-shaped machine used in the experiment is called a tokamak. The JET site is the largest live site in the world. Inside, only 0.1 milligrams each of deuterium and tritium (both are isotopes of hydrogen, also known as deuterium) are heated to a temperature ten times higher than the center of the sun to produce plasma. A magnet holds it in place as it rotates, fusing and releasing tremendous energy as heat.
