JET and ITER

This section provides information about ITER and how JET will be enhanced to provide support for the detailed design and future exploitation of ITER.

Despite the progress continuously achieved on JET and other fusion experiments, it is clear from simple energy confinement time considerations and performance calculations that a larger and more powerful device would be necessary to demonstrate the feasibility of nuclear fusion energy on a reactor scale. This is the purpose of the new research and development project ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor).