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Science 3 October 1997:
Vol. 278. no. 5335, p. 29
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5335.29a
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NUCLEAR FUSION:
JET Takes a Step Closer to Break-Even

Alexander Hellemans

Researchers at the Joint European Torus (JET), the European fusion test reactor at Abingdon near Oxford, announced last week that they have come closer than ever before to break-even, the point at which a fusion reactor produces as much energy as it consumes. Burning the same mixture of hydrogen isotopes that would fuel an actual fusion power station, JET produced 50% of the energy supplied to the reactor--close to twice the previous record.

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