‘World’s largest’ fusion fuel facility to be built – Nuclear fusion fuel facility to be built in Oxfordshire
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4vrd4l0mgo
‘World’s largest’ fusion fuel facility to be built – Nuclear fusion fuel facility to be built in Oxfordshire
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4vrd4l0mgo
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A facility designed to store and recover a fuel used for nuclear fusion is set to be built.
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and Italian energy company Eni have partnered to construct the facility – thought to be the world’s largest – at the Culham science campus in Oxfordshire.
Tritium is a radioactive form of hydrogen which is heated and forced together to make a heavier particle during nuclear fusion.
The new tritium fuel cycle facility, which will recover and re-use the particles, is due to be completed in 2028.
I’ve cycled past this place on the way to Truck Festival a couple of years ago. I’m wondering, what’s the rationale behind building such a facility when the ongoing joke with nuclear fusion is seemingly always “it’s twenty years away”?