The UK Atomic Energy Authority and The Henry Royce Institute for advanced materials have published a roadmap for developing materials for fusion energy that will give researchers a national tool and common themes to collaborate around.

The roadmap, developed with the input of over 100 materials experts from the UK research community and industry, highlights five major areas of work required to enable the materials for future fusion power plants.

Fusion – the same principle by which the sun creates heat and light – has the potential to be an abundant, low-carbon and safe part of the world’s future sustainable energy supply.