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Nuclear Fusion / South Wales Site Joins Nominations For UKAEA’s ‘Step’ Reactor

By David Dalton
12 May 2021

Government has put forward initial £222m in funding and wants to see prototype plant in operation by 2040
South Wales Site Joins Nominations For UKAEA’s ‘Step’ Reactor
The aim is to have a fully evolved design and approval to build by 2032. Courtesy UKAEA.
A local council in south Wales, has entered a site nomination process with the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) to build a nuclear fusion reactor on land next to an oil refinery and a combined cycle gas turbine power station.

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