Technical publications
Our research builds on decades of work on tokamaks and applies new technologies to make improvements.
If you would like to find out more about the key scientific evidence behind our approach to fusion, please read the following technical publications:
Academic papers
- Can the development of fusion energy be accelerated?
Proceedings from the Royal Society Meeting – “Can the development of fusion energy be accelerated?”
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- On the energy confinement time in spherical tokamaks: implications for the design of pilot plants and fusion reactors
by P F Buxton, J W Connor, A E Costley, M P Gryaznevich and S McNamara
Published 22 January 2019 , ,
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- Compact fusion energy based on the spherical tokamak
by A. Sykes, A.E. Costley, C.G. Windsor, O. Asunta, G. Brittles, P. Buxton, V. Chuyanov, J.W. Connor, M.P. Gryaznevich, B. Huang 29 November 2017 (Open access)
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- On the power and size of tokamak fusion pilot plants and reactors
by A.E. Costley, J. Hugill and P.F. Buxton; Nuclear Fusion, 55, 033001, 28 January 2015 (Open access)
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- Recent Advances on the Spherical Tokamak Route to Fusion Power
by A. Sykes, M.P. Gryaznevich, D. Kingham, A.E. Costley, J. Hugill, G. Smith, P.F. Buxton, S. Ball, S. Chappell, Z. Melhem; IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 42, 482, 2014
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- Modular fusion power plant
by V.A. Chuyanov and M.P. Gryaznevich, 4 September 2017
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- Merging-compression formation of high temperature tokamak plasma
M.P. Gryaznevich and A. Sykes. Published 10 March 2017
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- Heat deposition into the superconducting central column of a spherical tokamak fusion plant
by C.G. Windsor, J.G. Morgan and P.F. Buxton; Nuclear Fusion, 55, 023014, 3 Feb 2015
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- On the fusion triple product and fusion power gain of tokamak pilot plants and reactors
by A.E. Costley; Nuclear Fusion, 56, 066003, 2016 (Open access).
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Further media
Videos
As our library of videos shows, our research builds on decades of work on tokamaks and applies new technologies to make improvements.