This year’s IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, held this week, reflected the priorities of the new era in fusion energy research. The ITER experiment is fast taking shape in France, private sector investment in fusion is at an all-time high, and…
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…
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…
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…
