A new age of nuclear fusion may finally be about to dawn
A site on the Nottinghamshire-Lincolnshire border has been chosen as the location for a power plant that the government aims to have in operation by 2040
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor plant under construction in southern France, one of the contenders in the race to bring nuclear fusion to the global energy market
Today workers will start knocking down West Burton A, a coal-fired power station on the Nottinghamshire-Lincolnshire border that gave its final sparks of electricity to the grid last March.
Coal may be dirty word in power generation now, but West Burton was once seen as the future. When the plant was under construction in 1965, the Shah of Iran came to marvel at the latest in energy technology. And it could be the future again. West Burton, a sprawling site that is also home to a gas-fired station, has been chosen as the location for a nuclear fusion plant that the government aims to have in operation by 2040.
It is an ambitious plan. Fusion has been the next big thing in energy since the
