The UK government has established a new company, UK Industrial Fusion Solutions (UNIFS), to work on delivering the country’s first prototype nuclear fusion power plant, a statement by the UK ministry of science said.
The statement said a prototype plant at West Burton in Nottinghamshire is earmarked for completion by 2040. Such a plant is to make use of “near limitless low-carbon energy” by copying the fusion processes that power the sun and stars where atoms are fused to release energy.
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