Euro scientists prove it's possible to have near-limitless clean power

Produce world-record total of 59 megajoules of heat energy from fusion over 5 seconds

Fusion energy is a “huge step” closer after a landmark experiment produced world record results and demonstrated its potential to deliver safe and sustainable low-carbon energy, experts say.

On Wednesday, the UK Atomic Energy Authority announced the Joint European Torus (JET), the largest and most powerful operational reactor called a tokamak, had produced a world record total of 59 megajoules of heat energy from fusion over a five second period — the duration of the experiment.

In the experiment, scientists more than doubled previous records achieved in 1997 at the UKAEA site in Oxford using the same fuel mixture to be used