West Burton selected as home of STEP fusion plant
Government-backed programme aims to prove low carbon electricity from fusion.
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World’s fusion energy community gathers in Oxford
The UK and Oxford will become the epicentre of the global fusion community this week as hundreds of scientists and engineers gather to progress fusion energy powerplant development.
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£12 million UK-Japan robotics deal
Britain and Japan have signed a research and technology deployment collaboration to help automate nuclear decommissioning and aspects of fusion energy production.
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£3 million nuclear robotics contract is first tranche in LongOps UK-Japan deal
UKAEA has awarded Veolia Nuclear Solutions (UK) and Wälischmiller Engineering GmbH separate contracts totalling £3 million to supply robotic manipulator arms to its RACE research facility.
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£45 million for UK’s first AI supercomputer to accelerate fusion energy
1.4MW mission-focused supercomputer named ‘Sunrise’, primed to be the world’s most powerful AI supercomputer dedicated to fusion energy.