Joint European Torus - Annual report 1995
The 1995 annual report of the Joint European Torus (JET) joint undertaking is now available. This contains details of the JET project's operations during 1995. The JET project, which was started in 1978, is the largest project in the EURATOM Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion programme. Its principal aim is to define the essential requirements of a tokamak reactor, in particular through the creation and study of plasma in near-reactor conditions. The four major areas of work of the project are: - The study of scaling of plasma behaviour as parameters approach the reactor range; - The study of plasma-wall interaction in these conditions; - The study of plasma heating; - The study of alpha-particle production, confinement and consequent plasma heating. In addition, JET is pioneering two key technologies required in fusion reactors: the use of tritium and remote handling techniques.