Fusion Days
I recently came across this article on the BBC website commemorating the end of Fusion experiments at JET fusion laboratory This hit me hard, since it was only a mere 40 years ago, that I, a fresh-faced Physics student, entered the gatehouse at Culham, Oxfordshire to undertake my one and only contribution to British science as I started a 6-month placement at Culham Fusion laboratories. In truth, it was an exciting time. When I was in the last year of A-levels, me and a few others on the Physics course at Sutton Coldfield College of Further Education had arranged a tour of the site. To be honest, I remember little of it now, but something must have stuck, and while fellow students at Sheffield Polytechnic were going to placements at such dry board manufacturers (where really they were used as cheap labour) I felt I was doing what I really wanted. Real cutting edge physics that would shape the future. My first step to the Nobel Prize would start here.... The truth was a little more