Since Brexit, the UK no longer has access to ITER, the world's largest nuclear fusion experiment, through the European Union. After an invitation to rejoin this week, the UK government has confirmed it prefers to go it alone
The UK government has spurned an invitation to become an official member of the ITER nuclear fusion experiment, having lost access to the project following Brexit. Instead, the government plans to focus on UK-based fusion efforts, both public and private.ITER, the world’s largest fusion experiment, is under construction in France and is expected to be completed in 2025 after many delays.
Righi was speaking at an event in Oxfordshire to celebrate the achievements of the JET fusion reactor which was permanently “The Commission and the Council of the EU, in a joint statement, noted with regret that the United Kingdom decided not to associate to the Euratom programme and the Fusion for Energy joint undertaking,” said Righi. “For the next period starting in 2028 the EU institutions called emphatically the UK to participate in all the four programmes demonstrating power generation earlier than Europe. I’m very optimistic about the use of spherical tokamaks.
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