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JET REACTOR [1 record]

Record 1 2007-07-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Thermonuclear fusion
DEF

... the largest nuclear fusion experimental reactor yet built.

CONT

Situated on an old Navy airfield near Culham, Oxfordshire, in the UK, construction was started in 1978 and the first experiments began in 1983. JET is equipped with remote handling facilities to cope with the radioactivity produced by Deuterium-Tritium (D-T) fuel, which is the fuel proposed for the first generation of fusion power plants. Pending construction of ITER, JET remains the only large fusion reactor with facilities dedicated to handling the radioactivity release from D-T fusion. The power production record breaking runs from JET and TFTR [Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor] used 50-50 D-T fuel mixes.

Key term(s)
  • J.E.T.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fusion thermonucléaire
DEF

Plus grand réacteur à fusion nucléaire existant.

CONT

Nous avons déjà testé l'utilisation de robots dans le réacteur expérimental Joint European Torus (JET).

CONT

Le réacteur JET a permis de réaliser des progrès considérables. Actuellement encore, JET figure parmi les réacteurs expérimentaux de fusion les plus performants.

OBS

Les trois plus grands tokamaks sont : le JET (Joint European Torus), réalisé à Culham, en Grande-Bretagne, par un effort commun des dix pays membres de l'Euratom, auxquels se sont jointes la Suisse et la Suède [...]

OBS

Le JET (acronyme de l'anglais Joint European Torus, littéralement Tore commun européen) est le plus grand tokamak existant [...] jusqu'à la construction d'ITER [International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor].

Key term(s)
  • J.E.T.

Spanish

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