The Vacuum Chamber in the British Fusion Reactor JET (IMAGE)

Chalmers University of Technology

The Vacuum Chamber in the British Fusion Reactor JET

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Although the vacuum chamber in the British fusion reactor JET has a wall made of solid metal, it can melt if it gets hit by a beam of runaway electrons. It is these runaway elementary particles that doctoral students Linnea Hesslow and Ola Embréus have successfully identified and decelerated.

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Eurofusion

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