Rolls-Royce SMR was selected as the UK government's preferred technology for the country's first small modular reactor (SMR) project in June last year, and GBP2.6 billion was allocated in the 2025 Spending Review to enable this contract and wider programme delivery.

World first policy: The UK will be the first country in the world to offer a market framework for fusion electricity to de-risk and incentivise private investment and enable fusion to power homes and businesses.

The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has awarded contracts worth £8.1m ($11m) from its Fusion Industry Programme to 14 organisations to develop shielding and fusion fuel technologies for future fusion power plants.

UK’s latest Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction, Allocation Round 7 (AR7), has allocated 6.2 GW of new renewable energy capacity (UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero statement, 10/02/2026).

This consent allows the project to build and operate up to 100 turbines with associated infrastructure. Underground onshore cables will transmit power from the landfall site near Anderby Marsh (north of Skegness) to a new substation at Surfleet Marsh in South Lincolnshire.

Britain is seeking to largely decarbonise its power sector by 2030, which will require a big increase in renewable capacity.

UK-based Tokamak Energy has agreed an international strategic partnership with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) during the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh.

Britain should brace for warming of at least 2 degrees Celsius by 2050 and as much as 4C by the end of the century, the Climate Change Committee said in a letter on Wednesday. It was responding to a request for advice from the government about likely future climate scenarios.

Instead of using complex and expensive lasers or magnets to generate or maintain the conditions for fusion, FLF compresses the fuel inside a target using a projectile travelling at tremendous speed.

The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered 'tugs' to be permanently based in space, able to dock on to spacecraft and propel them at high speed over vast distances. Pulsar Fusion says it foresees a compact nuclear fusion engine providing both thrust and electrical power for spacecraft, including as much as 2 MW of power on arrival at a destination.