{"id":54059,"date":"2024-12-19T09:45:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T09:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=54059"},"modified":"2024-12-19T09:45:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T09:45:30","slug":"uk-organisations-collaborate-to-design-fusion-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/uk-organisations-collaborate-to-design-fusion-power-plants\/54059\/","title":{"rendered":"UK organisations collaborate to design fusion power plants"},"content":{"rendered":"
UKAEA, the UK\u2019s national organisation responsible for researching and delivering fusion energy, will provide programme requirements, domain expertise and selected data from its JET and MAST-U machines to develop groundbreaking fusion power plants.<\/p>\n
IBM, as a pioneer in high-performance computing (HPC), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Quantum technologies, together with STFC\u2019s Hartree Centre, is renowned for its heritage in making HPC, extreme-scale AI, and other digital solutions<\/a> accessible to industry and the public sector.<\/p>\n This expertise will bring an unparalleled digital advantage to the partnership.<\/p>\n Fusion energy can potentially revolutionise global energy systems by offering a virtually limitless, safe, and sustainable energy source.<\/p>\n It has the potential to offer safe, sustainable and low-carbon energy for generations to come.<\/p>\n It could also be transformative for energy security and important in the fight against climate change.<\/p>\n The UK is currently leading the way in fusion power plant design with its game-changing STEP programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n STEP (\u2018Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production\u2019) aims to make fusion commercially viable by demonstrating net energy, fuel self-sufficiency, and a viable route to plant maintenance.<\/p>\n By doing so, it stimulates the development of a new industry, positioning the UK at the forefront commercially.<\/p>\n The programme is taking a holistic approach to delivering a fully operational prototype fusion power plant that also considers decommissioning as part of the design.<\/p>\nThe potential of fusion energy in the UK<\/h3>\n
AI will create experimental fusion data<\/h3>\n