A Jenga-playing robot with a human touch used to maintain a fusion energy machine – where temperatures can be hotter than the sun – has been reunited with its identical superhero twin for the first time since 1999. Both…
Kelly LeaJuly 29, 2022
Construction work to expand Oxfordshire Advanced Skills (OAS) and launch new apprenticeship programmes in space, robotics, data science, energy storage, power engineering and cyber security started at a celebratory ceremony yesterday. The training centre’s £13 million extension at the…
Kelly LeaJuly 28, 2022
UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) have announced a new trans-Atlantic agreement to advance commercial fusion energy. The new five-year Collaboration Framework Agreement establishes the terms under which a series of work projects between US-based CFS,…
Kelly LeaJuly 25, 2022
A fresh wave of innovative companies will be moving into Culham Science Centre after the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) signed a new agreement to build an 8,000 square metre research and development building. A 35-year income strip forward funding…
Kelly LeaJuly 22, 2022
A new laser-welding ‘robotic snake’ developed by the UK Atomic Energy Authority has demonstrated its capability to operate inside of fusion energy powerplant pipework and is now patented technology. The novel trials at Culham Science Centre are another step forward…
Kelly LeaMay 30, 2022
Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid of Belgium discovered how fusion energy could play a key role in addressing climate change following a tour of the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s world-leading science centre in Oxford. Representative of His Majesty the King,…
Kelly LeaMay 11, 2022
Landmark results from EUROfusion scientists and engineers at world-leading UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Joint European Torus (JET) facility in Oxford Record-breaking 59 megajoules of sustained fusion energy demonstrates powerplant potential and strengthens case for ITER Fusion energy is crucial in…
Curtis WoodleyFebruary 9, 2022
Iconic fusion energy machine JET – which reaches controlled temperatures 10 times hotter than the core of the sun – completed its 100,000th live pulse last night. Weighing 2,800 tonnes, the same as 14 blue whales, the Joint European Torus (JET)…
Nick HollowayJanuary 19, 2022
Fusion energy promises a step change in the way the world’s future energy demands are met in a low-carbon, safe and sustainable way. This will be the message from scientists and engineers from the fusion energy community to world leaders…
Nick HollowayNovember 11, 2021
Interview with UKAEA's new Fusion Technology Cluster Development Manager, Valerie Jamieson. The rapid growth of fusion research in the UK can be seen in the increasing number of private companies attempting to fuse atoms together for energy production. Commercial fusion…
Nick HollowayOctober 13, 2021
