UKAEA and Eni join forces to build 'world's largest' fusion fuel facility

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Credit: UKAEA | Exterior of H3AT Tritium Loop Facility at Culham Campus
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Credit: UKAEA | Exterior of H3AT Tritium Loop Facility at Culham Campus

New advanced tritium fuel cycle facility aims to explore tritium recovery and re-use and its role in the supply and generation of fuel for future fusion power plants

The world's largest and most advanced facility for researching fusion energy is to be built at the UK Automatic Energy Authority's (UKAEA) Culham Campus research facility in Oxfordshire. The UKAEA announced...

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