Culham- Oxfordshire
http://www.ukaea.org.uk/sites/culham_site.htm
Duration: 10 hours
Culham is the home of JET (Joint European Torus), the world-leading magnetic-confinement fusion project, and the UK’s own experiment, MAST (Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak). There will be an introductory talk and we will then tour the site, taking in MAST, the JET Control Room and the Remote Handling Area, which controls robots working on the radioactive interior of the tokamak.
Here’s what Pim Lubberdink said about JET after the IAPS visit in October 2005:
“What a fantastic experiment it is! Temperatures of hundreds of millions of degrees, magnetic fields of 3.45 Tesla and currents of 3.2 million Ampere. If you like physics, you’ll definitely love JET: it doesn’t get any “physicsier” than this”.
There will be a short tour of the ancient university town of Oxford before the visit to Culham. Pim liked Oxford too:
“Oxford … has to be the most beautiful university-town I have ever visited … All these old colleges are like little castles with gardens, sport fields and always a big chapel. And they have all these funny traditions, like the famous one that you are not allowed to walk on the grass EVER. At one college they give you a fine of fifty pounds… per footstep!”