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MAST Upgrade – helping answer the big questions in fusion physics

A worldwide team is spearheading a series of ambitious experiments using the UK’s compact tokamak, Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) Upgrade, starting today at UKAEA’s Culham Campus. Over the next 100 days, the UK’s national fusion energy laboratory will work…

Michael BridgeOctober 15, 2024

UKAEA scientists in the MAST-U Control Room

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Treasury Minister visit highlights MAST-U second round of fusion energy experiments

A fusion energy machine vital for the delivery of the UK’s first prototype powerplant has started a crucial second round of experiments to help make ‘star power’ part of the world’s future energy mix. Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak Upgrade (MAST-U)…

Kelly LeaDecember 8, 2022

UK Science Minister Amanda Solloway at Culham

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Science Minister sees exciting fusion future for Culham

UK Science Minister Amanda Solloway welcomed plans to enhance Culham's role in developing fusion when she visited the campus on 17 June. General Fusion CEO Chris Mowry, UK Science Minister Amanda Solloway and UKAEA CEO Ian Chapman The minister was…

Nick HollowayJune 21, 2021

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Star man becomes star maker

British astronaut, and former International Space Station crew member, Tim Peake, visited Culham on Wednesday 26 May to officially open the MAST Upgrade fusion experiment. In the last six months since beginning operations, MAST Upgrade has already produced some very…

Nick HollowayMay 27, 2021

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First results from UK experiment point to a solution to one of fusion’s hottest problems

Culham scientists have successfully tested a world-first concept that could clear one of the major hurdles in developing fusion energy. Initial results from the UK Atomic Energy Authority's new MAST Upgrade experiment at CCFE have demonstrated the effectiveness of an…

Nick HollowayMay 26, 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

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All systems go for UK’s £55M fusion energy experiment

Safe, sustainable and green energy from fusion is a step closer with the launch of the MAST Upgrade tokamak. MAST Upgrade first plasma For the first time, after a seven-year build, UKAEA’s £55M-machine, labelled Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) Upgrade,…

Nick HollowayOctober 29, 2020

MAST Upgrade machine area - credit SMD Photography

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MAST Upgrade team hits key milestone on way to full operation

A key stage in the commissioning of the UK's new fusion device MAST Upgrade was reached last month with the first magnetic field produced inside the machine. Before going into operation, all the machine's power supplies have to be commissioned…

Nick HollowayApril 7, 2020

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New Science Minister Amanda Solloway MP at CCFE for first major visit

Amanda Solloway MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, was today at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy for her first major visit since becoming Science Minister. The minister visited CCFE's new fusion…

Nick HollowayMarch 6, 2020

Artist's illustration of a spherical tokamak power plant

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UK to take a big ‘STEP’ to fusion electricity

The UK is taking a giant STEP towards zero carbon, safe and abundant commercial fusion electricity, with the UK Government committing £220M for the conceptual design of a fusion power station – the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP). Secretary…

Nick HollowayOctober 3, 2019

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MAST Upgrade – helping answer the big questions in fusion physics

Treasury Minister visit highlights MAST-U second round of fusion energy experiments

Science Minister sees exciting fusion future for Culham

Star man becomes star maker

First results from UK experiment point to a solution to one of fusion’s hottest problems

MAST Upgrade: the vertical challenge

All systems go for UK’s £55M fusion energy experiment

MAST Upgrade team hits key milestone on way to full operation

New Science Minister Amanda Solloway MP at CCFE for first major visit

UK to take a big ‘STEP’ to fusion electricity

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