Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Our ST40 control room was recently described in The Economist as befitting ‘the set of James Bond’. In our latest #FusionPioneer video, plasma physicist Jonathan Wood gives an insight into the vibrant atmosphere during operations.
Jon explains how we heat our plasmas to over 100 million degrees, six times hotter than the sun and why validating that achievement is so important. ‘It’s not enough to say we got there’, he says, ‘we have to prove how we got there.’
Our ST40 control room was recently described in The Economist as befitting ‘the set of James Bond’. In our latest #FusionPioneer video, plasma physicist Jonathan Wood gives an insight into the vibrant atmosphere during operations.
Jon explains how we heat our plasmas to over 100 million degrees, six times hotter than the sun and why validating that achievement is so important. ‘It’s not enough to say we got there’, he says, ‘we have to prove how we got there.’
