Happy birthday, JET!
On 25 June over 100 JET staff, past and present, came together to celebrate the 25th anniversary of JET's first pulse — Day 1.
Paul-Henri Rebut, who had led the design team from its inception in 1973 and who went on to become the second JET Director gave a fascinating talk on the development of the project. .
Francesco Romanelli, the current director, talked of JET's progress to date and particularly its role in relation to °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ: "During the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ construction phase JET will remain the best asset of the world fusion community. JET is the machine closest to the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ parameters and the only one that can use Tritium and Beryllium. In the next years, until the upgrade of JT60-U is completed, JET will be the largest tokamak of its class in operation and therefore will be the ideal machine where the scientists who will collaborate on °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ can start working together to develop a common strategy on °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ scenarios, where natural leaderships can emerge and where researchers can be trained on how to operate a multi-MA device. To this aim JET is further opening to the participation of all the other °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Parties."