Ian Chapman, the head of the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE), has announced that nothing has changed regarding the future of CCFE since the UK's vote to leave the European Union, and that the government remains "very positive" about the fusion programme. The UK's national laboratory for fusion research, based at Culham Science Centre in Oxfordshire, hosts JET on behalf of its European partners. JET is the largest tokamak in the world and the only operational fusion experiment currently capable of producing fusion energy. The JET facilities are operated by the CCFE under a contract between the European Commission and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), and collectively used by all European fusion laboratories under the EUROfusion consortium.
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