A nuclear fusion firm backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is to build a fusion demonstration plant (FDP) in the UK, at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA) Culham Campus.
Vancouver-based General Fusion will enter into a long-term lease with UKAEA following construction of a new facility at Culham to host the FDP.
The FDP, whose development is expected to cost around £290m, will demonstrate General Fusion’s proprietary Magnetized Target Fusion technology, which it said would pave the way for the company’s subsequent commercial pilot plant.
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