Chapter 1: The Birth of JET
Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 53 / Number 4 / May 2008 / Pages 861-865
Technical Paper / Special Issue on Joint European Torus (jet) / dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST08-A1741
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The political and the scientific backgrounds leading to the decision to build the JET Joint Undertaking are described in this paper. A brief description of the organization of the project is also given together with a summary of the very early days of JET.
