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Nine organisations have secured contracts worth £11.6m in total with UKAEA to develop their innovative technologies for fusion energy.

Eighteen organisations have secured contracts withUKAEA to demonstrate how their innovative technologies and proposed solutions can help make fusion energy a commercial reality.

Proof of concepts will be developed to further fusion energy.

Five organisations have secured six contracts worth £7.4m in total with UKAEA to develop lithium technology for fusion energy.

The contracts were awarded through the Fusion Industry Programme to scale up projects dedicated to addressing fusion energy challenges.

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.

UKAEA has begun using two additive manufacturing.

UKAEA has improved optical viewport technology – reducing optical distortion by up to 75 percent – for applications such as fusion energy and quantum physics.

£7.8 million investment in master’s degree training will create new opportunities at the University of York and the University of Edinburgh.