A UK venture to build the world’s first fusion power plant will take centre stage this week as its EU-backed predecessor winds down after 40 record-breaking years.
The new Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) project to be built in Nottinghamshire aims to use pioneering reactor technology in a bid to finally prove fusion’s promise as a safe and potentially inexhaustible source of low-carbon energy.
STEP succeeds the Joint European Torus (JET) project outside Oxford, which conducted its last experiment in December and will announce final “milestone results” on Thursday.
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