Nuclear fusion

Plans to build a Nuclear and Clean Energy Technology Park in Gloucestershire are revealed.

The funding is split between projects in Oxfordshire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire.

The facility will be used to recover tritium - a key component in nuclear fusion.

The government has announced a shortlist of bids to deliver the prototype facility.

A Denver-based start-up plans to use powerful lasers to spark a fusion reactor.

The project, at a former coal-fired power station, will try to create a new source of clean energy.

First Light Fusion, in Oxfordshire, hopes to develop a commercial fusion power plant.