The Fusion Energy Webinar Series
The challenges and possible careers in the fusion energy sector – a webinar series for final-year undergraduate students.
The Fusion Energy Webinar Series aims to engage and inspire final-year undergraduate students in Physics, Engineering, Materials Science, Computing, AI, Robotics and related disciplines, by providing accessible, insightful, and motivating content about the different challenges and possible careers in the fusion energy sector.
Plasma science
Plasma science explores turbulence, transport, heat confinement, and the challenge of achieving burning plasma regimes.
Learn how tokamak design – from traditional designs to spherical tokamaks – shapes the path to viable fusion power.
Plasma exhaust
How do you handle heat as intense as a spacecraft re-entering Earth’s atmosphere?
Explore why the exhaust system is one of the biggest engineering challenges for fusion energy and how the Super-X divertor could be the key to commercial viability.
Robotic maintenance
Fusion power plants will rely on autonomous and remotely operated robots for maintenance in environments humans can’t enter.
See how we are designing the robotics that will keep fusion energy machines running safely and efficiently.
Material research
Find out about the technical foundations that make advanced scientific discovery for fusion energy possible.
Understand how our materials innovation pushes boundaries to accelerate research, ensure safety and reliability, and empower scientists.
Fuel handling
Tritium handling is one of fusion energy’s highest-stakes challenges.
Learn how UKAEA’s world-leading fuel cycle experts manage, store and analyse tritium safely, and why this capability is essential for commercial fusion power.
AI digital engineering
Discover how AI, supercomputing and ‘digital twins’ are accelerating fusion development.
UKAEA’s collaboration with Dell Technologies, Intel and the University of Cambridge is building a virtual STEP tokamak to optimise design, reduce risk and speed up delivery of electricity to the grid in the 2040s.
FOSTER: Fusion Opportunities in Skills, Training, Education and Research
Building a fusion skills ecosystem that can train, develop, and grow the fusion generation.