UKAEA Papers

A Quadling Director of Materials UK Atomic Energy AuthorityWE Lee Ser Cymru Professor of Materials in Extreme Environments Nuclear Futures Institute Bangor University.J Astbury Reactor Technology Manager & Head of Neutronics Tokamak Energy

Fusion has entered the engineering era. Moving from plasma science to experiments demonstrating the benefits of modified torus shapes and advanced divertor geometries, the ‘field’ has become an ‘industry’. Investors focus now on whether superconducting magnet joints are feasible in large tokamak designs and how to deliver net energy to grid…