The Wire · Nuclear

DESNZ··NewsNuclear

UK and US sign fusion and AI agreements at London summit

By Anthony at GridteamAI

DESNZ says the UK and US signed two agreements at the Global Fusion Summit in London on 14 September: one on fusion and AI, and a supercomputing partnership between the UK Atomic Energy Authority and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. The government targets more than 10,000 UK fusion jobs by 2030, building on the £2.5 billion five-year fusion programme, alongside a £2.63 million materials collaboration led by the University of Birmingham and a £3 million investment in the UK by Kyoto Fusioneering.

Our readFusion remains a research programme rather than grid capacity; the near-term consequence is for Culham's compute and supply chain, not the generation mix.
Read the announcement at DESNZ →

More from DESNZ

More in Nuclear

Reports that cover this

Every item, dated and sourced

The Wire is free, every weekday morning: what regulators, government departments, network operators and developers released the day before, each item dated and read at source. Get it in your inbox.