A step towards nuclear fusion

So this is the holy grail?

Not quite. Last week scientists at the Joint European Torus (JET), a nuclear fusion research project based near Oxford, set a new world record for the most energy ever generated from a fusion experiment. The team of researchers from the 30-nation Eurofusion consortium, based at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, produced 59 megajoules from a sustained reaction lasting five seconds. That’s not in itself a big amount of energy: it’s about enough to boil 60 full kettles of water, or to power a 60-watt light bulb for 11 days. Nor