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The UK Atomic Energy Agency will work with industrial partners to put the UK in a strong position to commercialise nuclear fusion as a major source of low carbon electricity

The prime minister visited the research centre, marking the government’s plans for a new fast-track visa route for the best scientists to continue to move to the UK after Brexit

Physicists from the US Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and General Atomics say injecting pellets into reactors could stop potentially damaging eruptions of plasma

The Joint European Torus in Culham, operated by the UK Atomic Energy Authority, will receive at least €100m over the next two years

Two UK firms have been selected to be part of a €100 million (£89m) deal to support the development of an EU fusion energy project. Nuclear engineering firm Nuvia Limited and Culham Centre for Fusion Energy will contribute to the development of ITER, a technology which is expected to be the first fusion device to produce […]

What will the power stations of the future be? The energy world was given a startling glimpse of one possibility this week when Professor Brian Cox said they were likely to be nuclear – nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion is the process which powers the sun and has long been considered a safer way of creating […]