world’s largest operational facility located at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire

A family of robotic snakes is being built to help keep Britain’s nuclear fusion hopes alive. Nuclear fusion is seen by many as a panacea for the world’s energy crisis, as well as climate change, because it produces a huge amount of energy from a small amount of fuel and makes no greenhouse gas emissions. However, inside these reactors is a hot and radioactive environment which would kill a person, so any maintenance must be done by machines. For almost a decade, British experts have been buildin

Harnessing the power of the Sun here on Earth promises to solve many of the woes brought on by the burning of fossil fuels.... A race is now on to develop the world's first commercially viable fusion reactor and the UK Government has invested a staggering ￡222million towards this ambitious initiative.... But the UK is not the only country going at it – the European Unionand international partners are working on the ITER Tokamak in southern France....

THE" Holy Grail" of virtually limitless clean energy from nuclear fusion reactors is within reach after a major breakthrough, scientists believe.An" artificial sun" burning at 150million degrees smashed the world record, helping the UK-based research team retake the lead in a global race that also involves China, the US and tycoons such as Jeff Bezos.... 4 The JET nuclear fusion reactor near Oxford produced enough energy to power 10, 000 homes 4 Boffins recreated the spark at the sun's core by