Found: MP , Secretary of State Department for Energy Security and Net Zero relating to the Government's Fusion

Found: Correspondence from the Secretary of State for Energy Security & Net Zero in relation to the Fusion Energy

Found: Correspondence from the Secretary of State relating to the launch of a scoping consultation for the Fusion

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is their assessment of progress being made towards the development of nuclear fusion, and by what date they estimate that electricity generated in this manner may be available to consumers.

Answered by Lord Callanan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

The Government’s STEP Programme, the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production, will design, develop, and build by the 2040s a prototype fusion power plant capable of delivering energy to the UK grid. The Government has already committed over £240 million towards the first phase of STEP which will develop a concept design for the prototype plant. Hosted in West Burton, Nottinghamshire, STEP will play an important role in demonstrating the commercial viability of fusion energy and galvanise the UK fusion sector. Fusion Energy is anticipated to play a significant role in the UK’s energy production from the 2050’s and beyond.

Found: www.gov.scot/publications/scottish -energy -strategy -future- energy -scotland -9781788515276/ 71 Towards fusion

Found: strategy -transition- plan/govscot%3Adocument/draft -energy -strategy -transition- plan.pdf 64 Towards fusion

Found: In 2021, the UK Government consulted on the future of fusion policy and regulation in ‘Towards fusion

Found: currently underway in England and Wales to identify a suitable location for a GDF; • progress on the fusion

Found: Fusion energy facilities: new National Policy Statement and proposals on siting

Found: Fusion energy facilities: new National Policy Statement and proposals on siting

Found: Fusion energy facilities: new National Policy Statement and proposals on siting

Found: Fusion energy facilities: new National Policy Statement and proposals on siting

Found: Fusion energy facilities: new National Policy Statement and proposals on siting

Found: Fusion energy facilities: new National Policy Statement and proposals on siting

Found: Fusion energy facilities: new National Policy Statement and proposals on siting

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Found: Utilisation of Provisions - Early Departure Net Zero, Nuclear & International - New Nuclear Strategy and Fusion

Found: The UK is also leading the way in fusion energy development, as engineering and construction companies

Found: Fusion Energy – We recognise that with future breakthroughs in fusion energy technology it has the

Found: We’re also making targeted investments in priority future technologies like fusion energy, small modular

Found: industrial supply chain capability by allowing the companies to work closely with UKAEA as it undertakes fusion

Found: The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), the UK’s national fusion energy research and development

Found: announce industry competition to find engineering and construction partners for the UK’s prototype fusion

Found: of High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) tapes, critical for the development of the UK’s prototype fusion

Found: Fusion energy regulation - June 2021 This report provides several recommendations on how the UK can continue

Found: reports, including Artificial Intelligence ( AI) as a medical device, neurotechnology, drones , and fusion

Found: strategy -transition- plan/govscot%3Adocument/draft -energy -strategy -transition- plan.pdf 64 Towards fusion