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Select Committee
Correspondence from Minister for Nuclear and Networks, in relation to an update to the UK's Fusion Strategy, dated 16 October

Correspondence Oct. 27 2023

Committee: Science, Innovation and Technology Committee

Found: Correspondence from Minister for Nuclear and Networks, in relation to an update to the UK's Fusion Strategy

Select Committee
Correspondence from the Minister for Nuclear and Networks relating to an update to the UK's Fusion Strategy, dated 16 October 2023

Correspondence Oct. 25 2023

Committee: Energy Security and Net Zero Committee

Found: Correspondence from the Minister for Nuclear and Networks relating to an update to the UK's Fusion Strategy

Scottish Government Publication (FOI/EIR release)
Energy and Climate Change Directorate

Oct. 19 2023

Source Page: Advice and correspondence about fusion power between 1 September 2022 and 1 March 2023: FOI release
Document: Annex B - 202300356587 (PDF)

Found: Advice and correspondence about fusion power between 1 September 2022 and 1 March 2023: FOI release

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Oct. 16 2023

Source Page: Thousands of new training places created as part of £650 million fusion package
Document: Thousands of new training places created as part of £650 million fusion package (webpage)

Found: Thousands of new training places created as part of £650 million fusion package

Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
UK Atomic Energy Authority

Oct. 16 2023

Source Page: Thousands of new training places created as part of £650 million fusion package
Document: Thousands of new training places created as part of £650 million fusion package (webpage)

Found: Thousands of new training places created as part of £650 million fusion package

Deposited Papers
Department for Education

Feb. 09 2024

Source Page: Letter dated 07/02/2024 from Baroness Barran to Viscount Hanworth regarding whether the UK was planning to train personnel to mediate the recent Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with the UAE, as discussed during the Universities: Nuclear Energy Sector Skills. 1p.
Document: Baroness_Barran_to_Viscount_Hanworth.pdf (PDF)

Found: Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with the UAE, as discussed during the Universities: Nuclear Energy

Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Dec. 19 2023

Source Page: Twelfth annual Japan-UK Nuclear Dialogue
Document: Twelfth annual Japan-UK Nuclear Dialogue (PDF)

Found: Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) gave an overv iew of plans and progress on fusion

Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
UK Atomic Energy Authority

Dec. 20 2023

Source Page: Pioneering JET delivers final plasma
Document: Pioneering JET delivers final plasma (webpage)

Found: dedicated teams of scientists and engineers have played a critical role in accelerating the development of fusion

Written Question
Nuclear Fusion: Research and Training
Wednesday 25th October 2023

Asked by: Chi Onwurah (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne Central)

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, from what budget line and over what time period funding will be provided for the commitment of up to (a) £200 million for a Fuel Cycle Testing Facility, (b) £200 million for vital R&D ensuring industry can develop and design components for future fusion powerplants, (c) £50 million for growing and improving the Culham campus in Oxfordshire, (d) £55 million for a Fusion Skills Programme, (e) £35 million additional funding for the Fusion Industry Programme, (f) £25 million to enhance international collaborations on fusion R&D, to export UK expertise and make best use of global knowledge to accelerate fusion energy, (g) £18 million for a Technology Transfer Hub and (h) £11 million to further support the STEP programme and upskill UK industry to help deliver it; and what the process will for deciding to whom the money from each commitment is allocated.

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

Fusion Futures is the UK’s alternative programme to Euratom R&T. The commitments will be funded from HM Treasury’s EU Programme ringfence which provides funding up to March 2028, subject to business cases. Further detail on the commercial arrangements for each commitment will be provided as the programme develops.

Deposited Papers
Department for Education

Feb. 09 2024

Source Page: Letter dated 07/02/2024 from Baroness Barran to Lord Wigley regarding the demand for graduates, and a proposed training reactor at Bangor University, as discussed during the Oral Question on Universities: Nuclear Energy Sector Skills. 2p.
Document: Letter-Baroness_Barran_to_Lord_Wigley.pdf (PDF)

Found: training reactor at Bangor University, as discussed during the Oral Question on Universities: Nuclear Energy