Fröhlich Lecture Series - The path to delivering fusion power - Professor Ian Chapman CEO United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
3:00pm - 4:00pm /
Wednesday 22nd November 2017
/ Venue: Barkla Lecture Theatre Chadwick Building
Type: Lecture /
Category: Department
- 0151 794 3358
- Mrs Angie Reid
- Suitable for: The Fröhlich Lectures are presentations by research leaders which are intended to be accessible to a general audience at the advanced undergraduate level.
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Abstract - Fusion power has long offered the potential for carbon-free, effectively-limitless power with no long-lived waste. However, realising fusion on Earth remains one of the grand challenges. With the construction of ITER, an experimental reactor expected to produce 500MW fusion power due to begin in 2025, fusion is approaching the delivery era. This talk will outline the challenges which must be overcome to achieve fusion and display the UK’s capability to address these challenges. In 2018, operation of the UK’s new fusion facility, MAST Upgrade, will begin. I will also discuss the role this exciting new facility will have in bringing commercial fusion closer to reality.
Abstract - Fusion power has long offered the potential for carbon-free, effectively-limitless power with no long-lived waste. However, realising fusion on Earth remains one of the grand challenges. With the construction of ITER, an experimental reactor expected to produce 500MW fusion power due to begin in 2025, fusion is approaching the delivery era. This talk will outline the challenges which must be overcome to achieve fusion and display the UK’s capability to address these challenges. In 2018, operation of the UK’s new fusion facility, MAST Upgrade, will begin. I will also discuss the role this exciting new facility will have in bringing commercial fusion closer to reality.