Naka, Japan (AFP) Feb 22, 2024 - With its tangle of pipes and pumps leading to a metal pot the size of a five-storey building, Japan s JT-60SA machine looks to the untrained eye like a contraption from 1970s sci-fi.
With its tangle of pipes and pumps leading to a metal pot the size of a five-storey building, Japan s JT-60SA machine looks to the untrained eye like a contraption from
With its tangle of pipes and pumps leading to a metal pot the size of a five-storey building, Japan s JT-60SA machine looks to the untrained eye like a contraption from 1970s sci-fi.
Japan's five-storey JT-60SA is the guinea pig of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor being built in France. Read more at straitstimes.com.
With its tangle of pipes and pumps leading to a metal pot the size of a five-storey building, Japan's JT-60SA machine looks to the untrained eye like a contraption from 1970s sci-fi.- 'Flash in a can' -
But the US facility uses a different method from ITER and the JT-60SA known as inertial confinement fusion, in which high-energy lasers are directed simultaneously into a thimble-sized cylinder containing hydrogen.