Fusion Energy Future: A Physicist’s Visit to the Joint European Torus Fusion Reactor

Paul May
Dialogue & Discourse
3 min readApr 12, 2019

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Fossil fuels are running out and killing the planet. Scientists in Oxfordshire are trying to tame the power of a sun for alternative energy.

Interior of JET. Picture taken from the CCFE reception area.

On a cold and wet November morning, I was lucky enough to visit the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) in Oxfordshire. The reason for my visit was to take a tour of the Joint…

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Paul May
Dialogue & Discourse

Data Scientist, Astrophysics PhD, reliability engineer and part time writer. I love exploring the world of science and how it shapes the world we live in.