• Question: What is the purpose of the JET machine?

    Asked by jenith to Robin on 9 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Robin Stafford Allen

      Robin Stafford Allen answered on 9 Mar 2012:

      @jenith: The JET machine is a test machine toward the design of a fusion reactor which will make lots of heat energy for making electricity. All electricity in power stations is made by steam driving generators round and round. The steam can come from boilers burning gas, coal or oil, or from a nuclear reactor. Fusion is a new and better form of reactor using nuclear fusion which is the process keeping the sun hot. This is “changing” by fusion all the hydrogen into helium in the sun which will go on for millions of years yet.
      Regards Robin.

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