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Ref:	 In <1991Nov11.154523.18353@jet.uk>,
	 on date 11 Nov 91, 15:45:23 GMT,
	 Mr. Colin Manning (cm@jet.uk):
	 "PRESS RELEASE"

Sub:	"JET ACHIEVES FUSION POWER" == "JET ACHIEVES LOT OF RADIOACTIVITY"

Mr. Colin Manning writes:

>At 7.44pm Saturday 9th November 1991, between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000 watts of
>power from nuclear fusion reactions were generated at the JET (Joint 
>European Torus) collaborative European Community project based at Abingdon, 
>Oxfordshire, UK.
>...
>The peak fusion power generated reached almost 2,000,000 watts (2MW) 
>in a ****pulse lasting for two seconds*** and giving a total energy release 
>equivalent to a megawatt for two seconds. 
>At lower power in deuterium JET has already maintained stable 
conditions in the apparatus for periods of up to 1 minute.
....

Let me present following remarks:

1.	This was remarkable MEDIA EVENT. Great success.

2.	It was very wise to talk about fusion POWER if terms of
	clean KWhours and megawatts.

3.	It was very wise not to express the fusion POWER
	in terms of fast neutrons and other radioactive particles,
	which they actually were.

4.	Now pardon, but what goverment or international organs are
	making major funding decisions in coming weeks?

5.	Could someone having nuclear physics degree estimate,
	what form (mix) the actual "fusion power" was and how
	much of problem waste we have in the inner shells of JET
	reactor now. Decay estimates et cetera?

-- 
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