Scientists say nuclear fusion has the potential of virtually unlimited supplies of low-carbon, low-radiation energy.<\/p>\n
It works by heating and forcing tiny particles, in plasma, together to make a heavier one – releasing large amounts of clean energy.<\/p>\n
To control the process, scientists need to be able to constantly watch and analyse the temperature, density, shape and stability of the plasma throughout the reaction.<\/p>\n
This is where the Culham diagnostic scientists come in.<\/p>\n
The team is made up of experts who have decades of experience working in British fusion facilities – including Oxfordshire’s JET fusion reactor, which was the world’s largest until it was decommissioned in 2024.<\/p>\n
David Croft, head of DICE, said the centre’s “greatest strength” was “our people”.<\/p>\n
“With decades of experience spanning diagnostics design, build, installation, analysis and operation, the DICE team provides expertise which is second to none,” he added.<\/p>\n
The UKAEA currently employs 20 people at the DICE facility, and said it was also being used by “apprentices and PhD students to build essential skills and gain hands-on experience in a laboratory setting”.<\/p>\n
“We have aspirations for the facility to grow in both capability and capacity to further develop skills and train the next generation,” the agency added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists say nuclear fusion has the potential of virtually unlimited supplies of low-carbon, low-radiation energy. It works by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-533603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}