Our world-leading science and engineering aims to put fusion energy on the grid.
UKAEA leads the world in fusion research with a wide range of programmes covering plasma science, robotics, materials testing and development, and tritium science. Our scientists and engineers are working with partners around the globe to develop fusion as a new source of clean energy for tomorrow’s power stations.
Fusion Futures
The Fusion Futures programme aims to foster world-leading innovation whilst stimulating general industry capacity through international collaboration and the development of future fusion powerplants.
MAST Upgrade
MAST Upgrade is the UK’s national fusion experiment.
MAST Upgrade is one of the newest and advanced tokamak experiments in the world – trialling a promising design for compact fusion devices known as spherical tokamaks. It is also tackling one of fusion’s biggest challenges: plasma exhaust.
JET Decommissioning and Repurposing
The next chapter of JET’s life cycle will shape the future of fusion engineering through scientific research and innovative thinking, such as research into efficient detritiation, the repurposing of JET’s assets and support systems, and development of remote handling capabilities.
JET
The Joint European Torus (JET) is the world’s biggest and most powerful tokamak.
Hosted at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, it is the focal point of the European fusion research programme.
Fusion Industry Programme
The Fusion Industry Programme (FIP) is stimulating growth of the UK fusion ecosystem and preparing it for future global fusion power plant market.
STEP
STEP is a UK-led, world-leading programme. It’s bringing government and industry together to develop fusion energy, scale it, and then deliver it at pace.
Our mission is to generate net energy from fusion and to stimulate an industry that will help prove its commercial viability. We’ll achieve this by producing a prototype tokamak powerplant – in an innovative spherical shape – to provide energy to the grid.
