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Nuclear Fusion / UK Launches Search For Community To Host ‘Ground-Breaking’ Step Facility

By David Dalton
2 December 2020

Prototype plant has initial £222m funding from government
UK Launches Search For Community To Host ‘Ground-Breaking’ Step Facility
Step will heat fuel to extreme temperatures, 10 times hotter than the centre of the sun, forming a plasma in which the fusion reaction will xtake place. Courtesy UKAEA.
The UK government has invited regions and communities across the country to put forward proposals to become the home of Step – the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production – the UK’s “ambitious and ground-breaking” programme to design and build a prototype fusion plant.

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