Research Comms

Fusion energy: how to prepare the world for transformative technology | Celestine Cheong | UK Atomic Energy Authority


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Celestine Cheong is Head of External Communications at the UK Atomic Energy Authority. In this episode of Research Comms she talks about the work of UKAEA to push for the delivery of sustainable fusion energy, about the challenges of communicating science that is at times, very complex, and about managing public expectations around the development of technologies that have the potential to transform society.

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  • UK Atomic Energy Authority
  • News article on Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory breakthrough
  • https://www.newsweek.com/energy-saving-tokamak-heat-barrier-solves-achilles-heel-nuclear-fusion-1784256
  • An animation explaining fusion energy

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