STEP Cryogenics Industry Workshop

UK Atomic Energy Authority

UKAEA are inviting the wider cryogenics community to engage with the STEP programme and outline a roadmap to a cryogenic infrastructure.

Culham Science Centre

Putting fusion energy into peoples’ homes will need creative scale-up of cryogenic refrigeration solutions. We are reaching out to the wider cryogenics community to get involved.Based at UK Atomic Energy Authority, STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production) is an ambitious programme to deliver a prototype fusion energy plant, targeting 2040, and a path to commercial viability of fusion. It will develop and identify solutions to the challenges of delivering fusion energy and, as the programme progresses, UKAEA will work with a range of partners to deliver the prototype of a commercially viable fusion plant.The STEP prototype will have the features of a fully operational power station including infrastructure, associated research, and development facilities. It is likely to be a delivery project of comparable scale and value to a major operational power station. Work is currently ongoing to select a suitable site for the plant, to be recommended to the Secretary of State by then end of 2022.STEP, and future commercial fusion power stations, will require significant cryogenic cooling at a range of temperatures from 80K to 4K. UKAEA are inviting the wider cryogenics community to a workshop to engage with the STEP programme. The objective is to introduce the cryogenics community to STEP, explain the importance of the programme for future energy production, and outline the challenges in terms of cryogenic refrigeration. The aim is to seek the collective wisdom to start outlining a roadmap to a cryogenic infrastructure for STEP and explore longer term engagement.The morning session will include a number of presentations, leaving the afternoon open for discussion of the roadmap and longer term opportunities.Please join us, either in person or online, to hear more about the STEP programme and have an input into the roadmap for resolving the challenges we face.

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STEP Cryogenics Industry Workshop

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