{"id":125738,"date":"2021-08-02T11:22:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T18:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/worlds-first-magnetised-fusion-power-station-to-be-built-in-uk"},"modified":"2021-08-02T11:22:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T18:22:24","slug":"worlds-first-magnetised-fusion-power-station-to-be-built-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/worlds-first-magnetised-fusion-power-station-to-be-built-in-uk","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first magnetised fusion power station to be built in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rdOfW6h77ZU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have really enjoyed working with General Fusion and their team of scientists on the design of the Fusion Demonstration Plant, and are particularly excited that the first of its kind will be built in the UK,\u201d the studio told Dezeen.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A prototype <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/power-plants\/\">power plant<\/a> with a nuclear fusion reactor is set to be built in Oxfordshire, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/england\">England<\/a>, by Amanda Levete\u2019s firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/amanda-levete-architects\/\">AL_A<\/a> for the Canadian energy company General Fusion.<\/p>\n<p>Located on the <a href=\"https:\/\/ccfe.ukaea.uk\/\">UK Atomic Energy Authority<\/a>\u2019s (UKAEA) campus in Culham, the Fusion Demonstration Plant will be used to prove the viability of <a href=\"https:\/\/generalfusion.com\/\">General Fusion<\/a>\u2019s nuclear fusion technology as a carbon-free energy source.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ala.uk.com\/\">A_LA<\/a> said it will be the world\u2019s first nuclear power plant of its kind upon completion in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe have really enjoyed working with General Fusion and their team of scientists on the design of the Fusion Demonstration Plant, and are particularly excited that the first of its kind will be built in the UK,\u201d the studio told Dezeen. A prototype power plant with a nuclear fusion reactor is set to be built [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}