Witty piece from CCFE on April Fool's Day
10 Apr 2017
JET's famous white buildings will soon be getting a new look as part of the European fusion experiment's preparations for its international successor, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ.
Bosses at the JET facility have decided to replace the white cladding on the exterior of the buildings with mirrored stainless steel to match the material being used at the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ complex at Cadarache in southern France.
The JET machine itself, as the world's largest magnetic fusion experiment, is being used as a test device to help pave the way for °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ â€” the first fusion project designed to produce industrial-scale quantities of fusion power. Between 2009 and 2011 the interior of JET was replaced with a new '°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ-like wall' of beryllium and tungsten to get as close to °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ scientific conditions as possible.
It is now hoped that replicating the exterior of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ buildings at JET will encourage scientists and engineers at Culham to intensify their work to support °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ.
The was published on the website of the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) on .