Скачать или смотреть Ardeer could host new UK Fusion Energy Plant | Huge economic potential for North Ayrshire & Scotland

The next phase of assessments is underway at Scotland’s only shortlisted location for the UK’s prototype fusion energy plant. In this video, Tristram Denton, Head of Commercial & Programme Development of STEP at UK Atomic Energy Authority talks through the process.

Experts have arrived at the site on the Ardeer peninsula at Stevenston in North Ayrshire, which was last month named on the list of five UK locations in the running to host the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) plant. The five locations are Ardeer, Goole, Moorside, Ratcliffe-on-Soar and Severn Edge.

The plant, which would provide unlimited clean energy, could see thousands of jobs brought to the area and a huge economic boost to North Ayrshire and Scotland as a whole.

Officials from the UK Atomic Energy Authority have paid a second visit to the Ardeer site to build their understanding of the site’s potential to host STEP as they make their final deliberations ahead of an announcement, expected in spring next year.

The bid for the North Ayrshire site is being led by the Fusion Forward (Ardeer) consortium, which represents NPL Group, which owns the land, North Ayrshire Council and the University of Glasgow.

STEP, supported by £222million in funding from the UK Government, aims to design and construct a prototype fusion energy plant capable of providing an environmentally-friendly source of electricity.

It is expected to create thousands of highly-skilled jobs during construction and operations, and to attract other high-tech industries to the selected location.

The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is hoping to have the plant operating in the early 2040s, with initial aims to produce a concept design by 2024. The proposal would be subject to regulatory assessments and public consultation through the relevant legislative procedures.

Fusion energy is created by forcing atoms together in the same process by which the sun produces radiation, unlike a nuclear reactor, which relies on fission and breaking atoms apart to generate energy. It has the ability to produce one person’s energy needs for 60 years using just one bath of water.

Unlike conventional nuclear fission reactors, fusion reactors produce no potentially harmful waste during their reactions – instead, their only product aside from power is helium, a harmless inert gas. Their design and production process are also inherently incapable of producing runaway chain reactions, making the kind of meltdowns that have happened in nuclear fission reactors impossible.
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