Nuclear fusion fuel facility to be built in Oxfordshire
A facility designed to store and recover a fuel used for nuclear fusion is set to be built.United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and Italian energy company Eni have partnered to construct the facility - thought to be the world's largest - at the Culham science campus in Oxfordshire.Tritium is a radioactive form of hydrogen which is heated and forced together to make a heavier particle during nuclear fusion.The new tritium fuel cycle facility, which will recover and re-use the particles,...
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