목차
Title page
Contents
Foreword 4
Background 5
Environmental and energy context 5
What is fusion? 7
The pathway to fusion energy 9
The UK Government's Fusion Strategy 10
International leadership 10
Scientific leadership 14
Commercial leadership 18
The role of the UK Government in delivering our fusion strategy 21
Conclusion: Towards Fusion Energy 24
Figure 1. Illustration of climate change as represented by the melting of polar ice caps 5
Figure 2. UK estimated energy requirement for 2050 6
Figure 3. Summary information about fusion energy 8
Figure 4. Internal view of the Joint European Torus 11
Figure 5. A illustration of the ITER tokamak and integrated plant systems 12
Figure 6. Inside ITER July 2021 12
Figure 7. Illustration of DEMO power plant 13
Figure 8. Image of Zeta project from the 1950s 14
Figure 9. Illustration of MAST-U 15
Figure 10. Illustration of STEP prototype power plant facility 16
Figure 11. The six challenges of magnetic confinement fusion and the roles of UK-based facilities and experiments in addressing them 17
Figure 12. UKAEA vision of the future Culham Campus 19
Figure 13. Oxfordshire Advanced Skills apprentices 20
Figure 14. Illustration of UKAEA fusion scientists and engineers 22
Figure 15. Distribution of UKAEA contract spending across the UK 23
Figure 16. Plasma in MAST, the UK's pioneering spherical tokamak 24
