radioactivity produced

JET is equipped with remote handling facilities to cope with the radioactivity produced by deuterium-tritium ( D-T ) fuel, which is the fuel proposed for the first generation of fusion power plants.

Measured over time, this sequential acquisition of radioactivity produced what was known as " circulation time ".

• Conducted the first successful operation of an isotope separator connected to a reactor in order to study short-lived radioactivity produced by fission of uranium-235.

* Enrico Fermi, Artificial radioactivity produced by neutron bombardment, Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1938.