A simple guide to what Fusion Power is all about, why we need it, and how we hope to achieve it.

45th Culham Plasma Physics Summer School
7-18th July 2008

Report on progress in our research programme from April 2006 to March 2007.

The full report is available online

Reports on the research at Culham.
JET The world's largest tokamak, operated by UKAEA on behalf of Europe.
MAST The Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak.

Article about the Spherical Tokamak concept (with interactive ST power plant feature).
See also:
START History and achievements of Culham's highly successful pioneering ST experiment.

Current opportunities to work in Fusion at Culham include:
.Electrical Engineers
.Physicists, Engineers
.Culham Apprentice Scheme
.Culham Fusion Research Fellowships
.PhD Opportunites
.Job Vacancies within UKAEA

Fusion and Industry assists and encourages UK companies to tender for contracts arising from fusion research and the ITER project, and supports technology transfer from fusion research.
 

Developing material joining solutions, for the fusion program, and providing support to many areas of industry.
 

ITER is a joint international research and development project that aims to demonstrate the scientific and technical feasibility of fusion power.

We organise many school and college visits to Culham and also operate a popular series of public visit evenings.

Diary of forthcoming meetings and conferences world-wide.

Have a question about fusion energy? Send it to us and we will try to answer. See our replies to frequent questions.

Some on-line technical papers on UKAEA Fusion research topics, with full search facility.

Explaining the technical terms used in fusion energy research.

Links to Web sites of many fusion research establishments around the world.