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UKAEA awards £7.4m for development of lithium technologies for fusion

Five organisations have secured six contracts worth £7.4m in total with United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority to develop lithium technology for fusion energy. The four universities and one company have received contracts ranging between £700,000 and £1.5m from UKAEA’s ‘Fusion…

Michael BridgeDecember 14, 2023

Joint European Torus interior with superimposed pink plasma on left side of image

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Fusion energy facility JET demonstrates use of laser-based diagnostic to monitor tritium

Fusion energy scientists and engineers at the Joint European Torus (JET) have developed a world leading method involving lasers to release and measure tritium trapped in fusion energy tokamaks. Most approaches to creating commercial fusion favour the use two hydrogen…

Michael BridgeDecember 7, 2023

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UKAEA awards £11.6m of contracts for development of innovative technologies for fusion energy

Nine organisations have secured contracts worth £11.6m in total with United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) to develop innovative technologies for fusion energy, which promises to be a safe, low carbon and sustainable part of the world’s future energy supply.…

Michael BridgeDecember 6, 2023

Speakers and apprentices at OAS launch event (left to right) Jakub Strzelcyk, Laurie Husband, Emma Johnstone, David Grailey, Professor Sir Ian Chapman, Stuart Martin, Heather Clarke, David Martin, Anisha Roberts

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Oxfordshire Advanced Skills centre completes expansion, launching new opportunities for apprentices

Oxfordshire Advanced Skills (OAS) has opened a new £13m state-of-the-art extension at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA) Culham Campus, to provide high-quality training for apprentices in a range of industry sectors. The opening of the new facility completes the…

Michael BridgeNovember 10, 2023

JET Vessel Interior viewed from Octant 1 Port

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JET experiments to test electronics in fusion environments

A joint study by the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), CERN, EUROfusion, CEA-IRFM, Aix-Marseille University (AMU), CNRS and University of Rennes, at the Joint European Torus (JET) facility in Culham, Oxfordshire, will investigate the impact of neutrons on the performance…

Michael BridgeOctober 5, 2023

Illustration of the interior of JET showing a plasma

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Scientific community to conduct final tritium experiments at Joint European Torus

The start of the final deuterium-tritium experiments at the Joint European Torus (JET) take place today at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) in Culham, Oxfordshire. JET is currently the world’s largest and most powerful operational tokamak, and the only…

Michael BridgeAugust 31, 2023

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JET set for its 40th birthday

Four decades of record-breaking progress in fusion energy One of the world’s largest and most advanced fusion energy tokamaks turns 40 on Sunday 25 June. Originally designed to run experiments for eight years, the Joint European Torus (JET) is being…

Michael BridgeJune 23, 2023

Inside a fusion training facility at UKAEA's Culham Campus

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UKAEA awards £6.8m of contracts to further fusion energy development

Proof of concepts will be developed to further fusion energy Seven organisations have secured contracts with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) to develop their innovative solutions and technologies to the ‘proof of concept’ stage. Worth £6.8m in total,…

Kelly LeaJune 8, 2023

UKAEA tritium trainers with the First Light Fusion team in the training room participating in the successful pilot of the tritium training course at Culham Campus

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UKAEA launches tritium training course to upskill fusion industry

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has launched a new tritium training course – taking place on 27 June 2023 – as part of its commitment to upskill the fusion industry. The course is being launched for the wider fusion…

Michael BridgeMay 17, 2023

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Tokamak Energy’s new advanced fusion prototype to be built at UKAEA’s Culham Campus

A new fusion energy advanced prototype with power plant-relevant magnet technology will be built by Tokamak Energy at United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA) Culham Campus, near Oxford. Tokamak Energy’s compact spherical tokamak, ST80-HTS, will demonstrate multiple technologies required for…

Kelly LeaFebruary 10, 2023

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UKAEA awards £7.4m for development of lithium technologies for fusion

Fusion energy facility JET demonstrates use of laser-based diagnostic to monitor tritium

UKAEA awards £11.6m of contracts for development of innovative technologies for fusion energy

Oxfordshire Advanced Skills centre completes expansion, launching new opportunities for apprentices

JET experiments to test electronics in fusion environments

Scientific community to conduct final tritium experiments at Joint European Torus

JET set for its 40th birthday

UKAEA awards £6.8m of contracts to further fusion energy development

UKAEA launches tritium training course to upskill fusion industry

Tokamak Energy’s new advanced fusion prototype to be built at UKAEA’s Culham Campus

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