User:BD-UKAEA/sandbox/The Hydrogen-3 Advanced Technology centre (H3AT)

In December 2017, the UK Government announced an £86m investment in the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority's (UKAEA) nuclear research programme in Culham, Oxfordshire. The investment was made to build and operate two new centres of excellence and due to open in 2020.

One of these is the Hydrogen-3 Advanced Technology centre (H3AT). Hydrogen-3, also known as tritium, is a radioactive isotope and will be one of the fuels used in future, commercial fusion reactors. H3AT (pronounced heat) represents an important step in the development of tritium technology and will support British industry to secure contracts from the international fusion experiment, ITER, along with other fusion and non-fusion projects.

When the new facility is finshed, the H3AT centre will include:


 * Advanced tritium infrastructure, to feed, recover, store and recycle tritium
 * A flexible suite of enclosures designed to enable a wide variety of experimental work, including pure tritium science, process development, component testing and waste detritiation
 * Computational simulations and model validation
 * Training facilities
 * Materials detritiation processes and facilities