First controlled deuterium-tritium fusion (JET)
Primera fusión controlada de deuterio-tritio (JET)
- Date
- noviembre de 1991 · confidence high
- Place
- Culham, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Joint European Torus (EURATOM)
- Field
- Matter & energy
What was discovered
At the Joint European Torus a tokamak burned a deuterium-tritium mixture for the first time and produced about 1.7 MW of fusion power. In 1997 the same machine reached 16 MW.
The first D-T experiment (about 10% tritium) took place on 9 November 1991.
What it led to
- data for ITER
- a 59 MJ fusion energy record in 2023
- techniques for handling tritium in a reactor