Nuclear fusion: Design work starts on Europe’s first commercial power station
The EuroFusion consortium hopes its DEMOnstration Power Plant will take fusion power from the lab to commercial electricity supply by 2054
Technology
5 July 2022
Nuclear fusion could one day provide us with clean electricity UKAEA
Nuclear fusion engineers are starting to design a European power station they hope will mimic how the sun works to provide a clean, almost unlimited source of energy on Earth.
Today marks the beginning of a five-year “conceptual design” phase to flesh out key technology decisions for the DEMOnstration Power Plant (DEMO), a project backed by a Europe-wide consortium to take fusion power from the concept stage to a commercial reality. The EuroFusion group plans for the 300-500 megawatt reactor to …