Tech firm helps energy ‘revolution’

Ceramics used to beat intense heat

- Sentinel Reporter

HIGH TECH: JET, a tokamak at UKAEA which can be involved in fusion.

A NORTH Staffordshire-based international technology company has been appointed to contribute to an innovation programme aimed at revolutionising the global energy industry.

Lucideon - which operates out of Penkhull and Stone - has been asked by the UK Atomic Energy Authority to support the delivery of sustainable fusion energy.

Three contracts have been awarded to Lucideon under the UKAEA’s Fusion Futures Industry Capability Programme, the authority's investment into industry capability and capacity.

Fusion energy works by recreating the same process that powers the sun, fusing isotopes of hydrogen together to release enormous amounts of energy.