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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?”: + Read more

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 Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Volume 61, Number 3: + Read more

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, J. Hugill, A. Kukushkin, D. Kingham, A.V. Langtry, S. McNamara,J.G. Morgan, P. Noonan, J.S.H. Ross, V. Shevchenko, R. Slade and G. Smith; Nuclear Fusion, 58, 016039, 29 November 2017 (Open access): + Read more

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): + Read more

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: + Read more

Modular fusion power plant by V.A. Chuyanov and M.P. Gryaznevich, 4 September 2017: + Read more

Merging-compression formation of high temperature tokamak plasma M.P. Gryaznevich and A. Sykes. Published 10 March 2017: + Read more

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: + Read more

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).: + Read more

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.

An introductory leaflet detailing our developments and ambitions up to October 2017

Fusion is the energy of the stars. It is the joining together of small atomic nuclei to make larger ones, and it is the mechanism by which all the heavier elements in the universe are made.