The recent decision to build the world's largest fusion experiment - ITER - in France has thrown down the gauntlet to fusion researchers worldwide. Richard Pitts, Richard Buttery and Simon Pinches describe how the Joint European Torus in the UK is playing a key role in ensuring ITER will demonstrate the reality of fusion power
Fusion: the way ahead
01 Mar 2006
Richard Pitts is at the CRPP-EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, e-mail richard.pitts@epfl.ch; Richard Buttery is at the UK Atomic Energy Authority in Oxfordshire, UK; and Simon Pinches is at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, Germany. They are currently leaders of three of the experimental task-forces at JET