Fusion and EUROfusion

Security of energy and electricity supply is a matter of national and international interest and safety: several challenges to the present energy systems have been identified, such as global warming and climate change, shortage of supply of fuels and key materials, environmental impact, population growth, increase in demand and in recent years the impact of political instability.

Therefore, an energy strategy involving a broad spectrum of different techniques needs to be developed.

Nuclear fusion is one of these techniques and it has the potential to provide safe, abundant and carbon-free base load electricity to the grid.

Recent developments and breakthroughs have led to an increased interest to accelerate the efforts towards a DEMO reactor and consequently the demand for the domestic competences and tools are increasing and the need to maintain and bring new skills to a broadened engagement, both national and international, is paramount.The realization of net fusion power is a challenging task and one that can only be addressed through coordinated international collaborations involving several different international organizations and facilities.The application seeks support to strengthen the Swedish Research Unit (SRU) as a national node towards the European EUROfusion consortium by further advancing and developing the hardware, software and skills used in the current activities to help accelerate the realisation of fusion energy as an energy source.