Taking Nuclear Fusion Power from Experiment to the Grid
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But with the UK’s EU fights shipping emissions departure date now just a couple of months away, and – at the time of writing at least – 08 Min ing EU eyes boost from the nature of our future relationship with the EU no clearer than it was two and a half underwater mining years ago, it is perhaps an understatement to say that the UK’s engineering and manufacturing base can rarely have faced a new year with more trepidation. 10 Au tomotive StreetDrone drives The areas of concern are well known: most firms we have spoken to agree that UK development ahead manufacturing will suffer without access to the single market, the customs union, and the 12 Medical Breakthrough in quest for pipeline of European engineering talent. Predictably, and despite many manufacturers now backing up their words with oxygen dose accuracy concrete actions – see JLR’s recent decision to cut 5,000 UK jobs – dismissive cries of “project fear” continue to be bandied about by people who should know better. opinion But despite a growing perception that ideology trumps economic reality, it is important that 18 Viewpoint Alexander Jan industry doesn’t give up hope, and that – for the sake of the hundreds of thousands of UK 20 Ma ilbox Your letters to the editor Iworkers whose livelihoods depend on its “ It is important 25 Nus rat Ghani A positive shift in economic success – it continues to articulate its career perceptions concerns clearly to government. that industry On a more positive note, we were delighted to 34 In terview Wallis Laughrey learn, as this issue went to press, that Bloodhound SSC – the beleaguered UK effort to continues features build a land speed record-breaking supersonic car – could be back on again after the business to articulate 26 Cover story Beyond ITER – next behind the project was acquired by Yorkshire steps in fusion power businessman Ian Warhurst.