UK centre to shoot for nuclear fusion record (BBC)

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By Paul Rincon
Science editor, BBC News website

The director of a UK science facility says scientists there will try to set a new world record in nuclear fusion.

The Jet experiment in Oxfordshire was opened in 1984 to understand fusion - the process that powers the Sun.

Prof Steve Cowley told the BBC a go-ahead to run Jet at maximum power would allow scientists to try for the record by the end of the decade.

This could bring Jet up to the coveted goal of "breakeven" where fusion yields as much energy as it consumes.
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"Our world record was from 1997, we think we can improve on it quite considerably and get some really spectacular results. We're winding up to that and by the end of the decade we'll be doing it."
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more: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27138087

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1. World record was from 1997?

And they hope to beat it by 2024? It always seems fusion is 30 years away. It's been like this ever since I first heard about it in 1970 at the age of 9.