Fusion: Power source of the indefinite future

Fusion energy has forever been just beyond our reach. With regular news stories of breakthroughs and revolutionary reactor designs, why are there no fusion power plants? As demand for a long term, reliable, carbon free energy source grows, fusion power plants are needed more than ever. This talk from Samuel Ha discusses current international research and development, as well as the progress made towards a fusion power plant.

Biography

Samuel is an engineer at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, contributing to the design of a European Demonstration Fusion Power Plant, with a keen interest in global developments in fusion science and engineering.

Venue

The seminar will be held in Room 116 of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (building 16 on the campus map). The room is known as the Energy Futures Lab teaching area (or The Bunker). If you are entering the building from Dalby Court/through the building’s main entrance the room is down a flight of stairs, through the double doors on your left hand side, turn right at the end of the corridor and it is the second door on your right.