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Daily Mirror
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Nina Massey & Matthew Dresch & Laura Sharman

Oxford's JET lab delivers major breakthrough smashing fusion energy output record

Scientists smashed a world record for the production of fusion energy in an experiment.

The Joint European Torus (JET) tokamak - a fusion reactor - produced 59 megajoules of heat over a five-second period on Wednesday.

This is more than double previous records achieved in 1997 at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) site in Oxford.

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