April 2021

MAST Upgrade - illustration of the Super-X divertor

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MAST Upgrade: the vertical challenge

A new control system on Culham's MAST Upgrade experiment automatically keeps the superhot plasma fuel in check within milliseconds – allowing physicists to carry out key research with the machine’s world-first Super-X divertor system. The divertor region of ‘tokamak’ fusion…

Nick HollowayApril 30, 2021

Plasma in the MAST spherical tokamak device

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UKAEA completes pilot project with industry to accelerate fusion development

UKAEA and its fusion research arm Culham Centre for Fusion Energy have carried out a pilot project working with five companies to tackle some of fusion energy’s most complex challenges. The initiative, called the ‘Fusion Innovation Challenge’, threw down the…

Nick HollowayApril 22, 2021

Artist's impression of H3AT complex at Culham

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Contract awarded to design world-first tritium research centre at Culham

Culham Centre for Fusion Energy's operator UKAEA has appointed Atkins – a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group – to help design H3AT, the world’s first centre for researching tritium for use in fusion energy. UKAEA’s Hydrogen-3 Advanced Technology (H3AT) facility…

Nick HollowayApril 21, 2021

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CHIMERA set to transform the world of fusion component testing

Construction of a unique testing machine for fusion components is underway at UKAEA. The machine, known as CHIMERA (or Combined Heating and Magnetic Research Apparatus), will be located at UKAEA’s new Fusion Technology Facility in South Yorkshire, UK. When it…

Nick HollowayApril 19, 2021

MAST Upgrade: the vertical challenge

UKAEA completes pilot project with industry to accelerate fusion development

Contract awarded to design world-first tritium research centre at Culham

CHIMERA set to transform the world of fusion component testing

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