Tokamak Energy: Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition

Tokamak Energy, a private company that aims to accelerate the development of fusion energy by concentrating on new technologies and smaller machines, will be exhibiting at the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition. The Summer Science Exhibition is the UK's most prestigious science exhibition and shall host around 25 exhibitions, including Tokamak Energy. 

If you are on Twitter you can follow the Royal Society (@royalsociety) and use the hashtag #SummerScience for any tweets related to the Summer Science Exhibition. You can also follow Tokamak Energy (@TokamakEnergy) and use the hashtag #FasterFusion for any tweets related to their stand at the Summer Science Exhibtion.

But why am I talking about this? Well, firstly, I visited the Summer Science Exhibition last year and it was one of the BEST science events I have ever attended! And I would like you all to experience it too. The sheer quality of the stands and the exhibitors was incredible and I have never had such a steep learning curve - so many wonderful things to learn and see! Here are a few highlights of last year's event:

Playing a game with just 'brainwaves'!

Ultrasound

Clever wing of an aircraft

Royal Society

Fusion research at Imperial College

Exotic fish

Jellyfish

Dinosaur

Camera that video the 'movement' of light

Lenses

Blue ring: electrons being bent by a magnetic field

Secondly, I shall be sharing the amazing work of Tokamak Energy with the public and schools at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition next week! This is all courtesy of the wonderful Dr. Melanie Windridge who has given me this incredible opportunity, for which I am ever so grateful.

As a small teaser, Tokamak Energy are finding a faster way to fusion. Fusion is a nuclear process that is opposite to fission where light nuclei fuse to form helium. This is a very safe process and is carbon emission free, making it the ideal process for energy production. Fusion occurs in nature, inside the very thing that helps to give us life, the Sun. On Earth we can recreate the conditions within the Sun inside a tokamak (or magnetic bottle). A tokamak is a doughnut-shaped magnetic trap for fusion plasmas, where tokamak is a Russian acronym that stands for 'toroidal chamber magnetic coils'. By harnessing this process on Earth we can have clean, efficient energy production - the dream which shall soon become reality! But the big money question is how soon - find out more at our stand at the Royal Society from the 29th of June to the 5th of July, more details here. We hope to see you there!