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UK and Canada partner to accelerate fusion energy development
The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) have signed a collaboration framework agreement to partner on developing technologies...
JET’s final experiments set new fusion energy record
The UK’s Joint European Torus (JET) in Culham near Oxford, which closed at the end of December 2023 after 40 years of operation, “has demonstrated the ability to reliably generate...
ITER vacuum vessel sector undergoes factory acceptance testing
The first of five vacuum vessel sectors for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) under construction at Cadarache in France to be supplied by Fusion for Energy...
General Atomics to develop silicon carbide materials for fusion power plants
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has awarded a three-year contract to US-based General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) to develop a scalable,...
Assystem and York University co-operate on fusion digital twin development
Assystem has partnered with the University of York in the UK to launch a PhD focused on researching the development of a digital twin for a complex component which is essential to...
Kyoto Fusioneering and Karlsruhe Institute to co-operate on fusion development
Japan’s Kyoto Fusioneering (KF) and Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have signed a Cooperation Agreement to advance research and development in fusion power...
New neutron facility for UK National Physical Laboratory
The UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is planning a new neutron measurement facility at its site in Teddington, south-west London. NPL said it will play a critical role in the...
Rosatom prepares panel of the first wall of the ITER for serial production
Specialists at Russia’s DV Efremov Institute of Electrophysical Apparatus (NIIEFA, part of Rosatom) in St Petersburg have completed acceptance tests of the full-scale prototype panel...
Russian physicists test boron carbide as wall coating for ITER reactor
Specialists at the GI Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INP SB RAS) together with teams from other scientific...
JET to be repurposed after delivering final plasma
The Joint European Torus (JET) at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA’s) Culham facility has performed its final experiments, marking the end of 40 years of...
UKAEA awards contracts to develop lithium technologies for fusion
The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has awarded five organisations six contracts worth £7.4m ($9.4m) in total to develop lithium technology for fusion energy....
UKAEA awards more funding for fusion as JET announces technology advance
Nine organisations have secured contracts worth £11.6m ($14.6bn) in total from United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) to develop innovative technologies for fusion energy....
COP28: IAEA launches fusion energy discussion
Fusion is developing fast and gaining momentum as a climate solution, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said at a special event at COP28 in Dubai. The event highlighted...
Kyoto Fusioneering to supply advanced gyrotron systems to General Atomics
Japan’s Kyoto Fusioneering (KF) has agreed to supply two advanced gyrotrons to General Atomics (GA) for the US Department of Energy’s (DOD’s) DIII-D National Fusion Facility in San...
Key ITER component moved to workshop for repair
Although the distance is little more that 100 metres, the transfer of vacuum vessel sector 8 from the Assembly Hall, where it is presently stored, to the Cryostat Workshop, where it...
Rosatom plans to test new material for the first wall of ITER
In the second half of 2024, Russian specialists plan to conduct experiments in China and South Korea using unique domestic material that can be used at the International...
JT-60SA fusion device inaugurated in Japan
The Japan Torus-60 Super Advanced (JT-60SA) fusion device, the world's largest operational superconducting tokamak, has been launched at Japan’s National Institutes for Quantum Science...
Orano wins dependability contract from ITER
France’s Orano, through its engineering subsidiary Orano Projets, has been awarded a contract by the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) for its expertise in...
US and UK form strategic partnership to advance fusion energy
Following talks in Washington between US Deputy Secretary of Energy David M Turk and the UK Minister for Nuclear & Networks, Andrew Bowie a new strategic partnership was established...
