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Magnet engineer awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship extension

Tokamak Energy’s Principal Magnet Engineer Dr Greg Brittles has been awarded a three-year extension to his Future Leaders Fellowship by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The government funding is awarded to emerging leaders around the UK to commercialise their innovations and lead research into global issues such as energy and climate. Greg’s fellowship is for…

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Khalifa University student Joins Tokamak Energy’s team of engineers designing fusion energy pilot plant

Tokamak Energy has invited the first UAE national student to join a team of engineers designing its fusion energy pilot plant under an internship program. Jassem Alhammadi, a Khalifa University senior student in the bachelor’s program in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Nuclear Engineering, has become the first Emirati intern to join the Tokamak…

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Insights from Tokamak Energy’s first TechFest

TechFest was a valuable chance for the teams to interact, collaborate and learn something new When working on two transformative technologies with the potential to change the world, it’s only right to sometimes take a breath. How else would the people building the world’s largest set of High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) magnets in tokamak geometry,…

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Tokamak Energy publishes its first Gender Pay Gap report

Tokamak Energy has today published its first Gender Pay Gap report. This is an important milestone in the growth of the organisation and part of the company's continuing commitment to openness and transparency. The Gender Pay Gap report is a ‘snapshot’ of data taken each year to compare the hourly pay and bonus figures for…

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Tokamak Energy selected by UK Government for Global Investment Summit innovation showcase

Tokamak Energy has been selected by the UK Government to showcase its world-leading technology at next week’s Global Investment Summit. Jointly hosted by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the Department for Business and Trade, Monday’s exclusive summit at Hampton Court Palace will focus on ‘Great British Ideas – Past, Present and Future’. Tokamak Energy is…

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Watch Tokamak Energy’s new behind-the-scenes ‘Fusion Pioneers’ series

Tokamak Energy is taking a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to deliver clean, limitless energy with its new ‘Fusion Pioneers’ video series. Fusion Pioneers will showcase the people and technology behind the company’s mission to demonstrate grid-ready fusion power by the early 2030s. After kicking the campaign off with Cary Colgan, a Plasma Diagnostician,…

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Tokamak Energy to represent UK and fusion energy industry at Japan showcase exhibition

Tokamak Energy will represent the UK and fusion energy industry at next week’s Hack Osaka 2023 exhibition after an inspiring Dragons’ Den-style pitch to Japanese judges. The company has been invited by Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI) to introduce its route to clean, limitless, low-cost fusion power at the global event on Tuesday,…

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Tokamak Energy and University of Illinois receive largest INFUSE grant ever awarded from US Department of Energy

7 July 2022, Oxford, UK – Tokamak Energy and the University of Illinois have been awarded a US$500,000 grant from the US Department of Energy to collaborate on the development of liquid lithium systems for spherical tokamak devices. This is Tokamak Energy’s sixth INFUSE award, the largest INFUSE grant ever awarded so far and one…

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Tokamak Energy moves closer to commercial fusion

Tokamak Energy moves closer to commercial fusion: 100M degree plasma a world record for a spherical tokamak

A world first for a private fusion energy company A spherical tokamak incorporating HTS magnets now planned Tokamak Energy has demonstrated a world-first with its privately-funded ST40 spherical tokamak, achieving a plasma temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius, the threshold required for commercial fusion energy. This is by far the highest temperature ever achieved in…

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Sir David Harding joins Tokamak Energy Board

Sir David Harding joins Tokamak Energy Board

Tokamak Energy has announced that Sir David Harding has joined its Board of Directors. Sir David, who has been at the forefront of systematic investment management for more than 30 years, saw the potential of the spherical tokamak path to fusion energy in 2014 when he first invested in the company, and brings world leading…

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