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With the transition from ITER to DEMO, fusion will go from a science-driven, lab-based exercise to an industry-driven and technology-driven programme.

Fusion is combining light atoms, for example two hydrogen isotopes, deuterium and tritium, to form the heavier helium.

Following Eddington’s paper, Robert d’Escourt Atkinson and Fritz Houtermans provided the first calculations of the rate of nuclear fusion in stars. And at the same time, Ernest Rutherford was ...

EUROfusion’s Fusion Science programme is designed to coordinate experiments to gather physics knowledge to ensure the efficient experimentation in ITER.

The objectives of the Fusion Science Programme are the development of plasma regimes for ITER and investigating solutions to manage the heat exhaust in future fusion power plants. This work has been ...

In a major scientific achievement, European researchers at the Joint European Torus (JET) facility have set a new world energy record of 69 megajoules released in sustained and controlled fusion ...

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Plasma physicists combine three parameters – temperature, density and time – by multiplying them together to form what is known as the fusion product or triple product.

This work has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium, funded by the European Union via the Euratom Research and Training Programme (Grant Agreement No 101052200 — ...

EUROfusion supports and funds fusion research activities on behalf of the European Commission’s Euratom programme.

The EUROfusion roadmap forms the basis for the programme of EUROfusion and provides a clear and structured way forward to commercial energy from fusion.