UKAEA awards £6.8 million of contracts to further fusion energy development
Proof of concepts will be developed to further fusion energy.
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’s position as a world-leading centre of research and expertise in tritium management has been reinforced.
UKAEA commits £20 million to the UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund portfolio, a Government-backed seed fund for early-stage fusion and deep tech companies.
UKAEA’s Fusion Industry Programme awards contracts for advancing fusion technology for future power plants.
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.
A new essay highlights the potential of AI data stocktakes to unlock fusion’s data.
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.