{"id":28583,"date":"2022-02-11T23:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T22:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28583"},"modified":"2022-02-11T23:30:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T22:30:09","slug":"new-earth-fusion-energy-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28583","title":{"rendered":"New earth fusion energy record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/20220911.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIt was announced two days ago that the JET tokamak, at Culham near Abingdon, produced two and a half times the amount of fusion energy obtained during a previous trial in 1997. It provides test evidence that the more advanced tokamak, called ITER, being built in the South of France, is worthwhile. <\/p>\n<p>JET&#8217;s tokamak reactor has atoms of deuterium and tritium at the center. These isotopes of hydrogen (having one and two additional neutrons respectively), are heated to temperatures (10 x the Sun&#8217;s centre) to fuse them into helium atoms. This reaction releases a huge amount of energy. <\/p>\n<p>There is more information with videos at <a href=\"https:\/\/ccfe.ukaea.uk\/fusion-energy-record-demonstrates-powerplant-future\/\">https:\/\/ccfe.ukaea.uk\/fusion-energy-record-demonstrates-powerplant-future\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The picture from Abingdon Museum has some information about atomic research happening at Harwell and Culham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced two days ago that the JET tokamak, at Culham near Abingdon, produced two and a half times the amount of fusion energy obtained during a previous trial in 1997. It provides test evidence that the more advanced tokamak, called ITER, being built in the South of France, is worthwhile. JET&#8217;s tokamak reactor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}