Culham

The first of the government's "AI growth zones" will be in Culham, Oxfordshire, at the UK Atomic Energy Authority's campus – seven miles from the site of a planned new reservoir at Abingdon.

The first of these will be in Culham, Oxfordshire and more will be announced this summer with a focus on de-industrialised areas.

Scientists were brought in from across the continent to Culham in Oxfordshire; Professor Green was one of them.

But a 2018 paper in Nuclear Fusion by Michael Kovari of the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy and colleagues argues such modifications would likely face regulatory barriers because they could compromise reactor safety and because of the dangers of tritium itself.

When it restarted in 2011, the signs were not good, says Cowley, who was then director of the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, which runs JET on behalf of the European Union’s EuroFusion agency.