{"id":215920,"date":"2025-06-14T14:02:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T19:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/major-funding-milestone-for-world-first-prototype-fusion-plant"},"modified":"2025-06-14T14:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T19:02:23","slug":"major-funding-milestone-for-world-first-prototype-fusion-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/major-funding-milestone-for-world-first-prototype-fusion-plant","title":{"rendered":"Major funding milestone for world-first prototype fusion plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/major-funding-milestone-for-world-first-prototype-fusion-plant2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The government has announced a record \u00a32.5 billion investment in fusion energy, which includes support for a prototype fusion energy plant in Nottinghamshire.<\/p>\n<p>The new prototype plant, known as STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production) will be built at the site of the former West Burton A coal power station near Retford and Gainsborough. The site was chosen by the government in 2022 as the location for the project, with the project\u2019s delivery expected to create over 10,000 jobs ranging from construction to operations. The announcement shows the government\u2019s firm commitment to becoming a \u201cclean energy superpower\u201d by turbocharging innovation in an area that\u2019s produced conventional power for generations.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The record funding for fusion research announced this week shows the UK government\u2019s firm commitment to clean, sustainable energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has announced a record \u00a32.5 billion investment in fusion energy, which includes support for a prototype fusion energy plant in Nottinghamshire. The new prototype plant, known as STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production) will be built at the site of the former West Burton A coal power station near Retford and Gainsborough. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,1490,873,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-government","category-nuclear-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215920","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}