nuclear fusion

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

Fusion energy research aims to copy the process which powers the sun for a new large-scale source of clean energy on Earth

Funding has been provided to 37 universities, national laboratories and private companies

Scientists at the energy centre managed to fire 2.15 megajoules of energy into a target chamber

First Light Fusion aims to unlock the way to ‘safe, clean and virtually limitless energy’

Scientists at MIT are working with new private company Commonwealth Fusion Systems to develop a working pilot plant

The government has announced £86 million of funding for the country’s nuclear fusion programme. The investment will help fund the building and operation of the National Fusion Technology Platform at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA) Culham Science Centre. It will be made up of two facilities, which will develop technology for the first nuclear […]

Google has entered the race for nuclear fusion technology with a US firm. The search engine giant and Tri Alpha Energy, backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, have developed a new computer algorithm which has helped speed up experiments on plasmas – which are ultra-hot balls of gas. Nuclear fusion, which generates huge amounts of […]

The UK’s newest nuclear fusion reactor has turned on and generated plasma for the first time. The ‘ST40’ reactor aims to produce a record-breaking plasma temperature of 100 million degrees, seven times hotter than the centre of the Sun and the heat necessary for controlled fusion. It was developed by Tokamak Energy, one of the world’s […]

An experimental nuclear fusion project in the UK is to receive £21 million in funding. The Mage Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) Upgrade test facility at the Culham Science Centre in Oxfordshire will use the money to upgrade its plasma exhaust systems. The funding, which will run up until 2022, comes jointly from research consortium EUROfusion and the UK’s Engineering […]