The UK and USA have formalised plans for closer cooperation on AI and advanced computing for fusion research, with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the US Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) signing a Joint Declaration of Intent at the Global Fusion Policy Summit in London on 14 September.
The agreement will explore creating the SUNRISE–STELLAR-AI Federation, connecting UKAEA’s £45 million SUNRISE AI supercomputer with PPPL’s STELLAR-AI platform. Researchers would be able to train AI models using results from both laboratories, drawing on experiments from UKAEA’s MAST Upgrade facility in Oxfordshire and PPPL’s NSTX-U facility in New Jersey. Both facilities use compact spherical tokamaks with similar designs, allowing researchers to test whether machine-learning models can make predictions across different fusion machines.
By Digital Watch Observatory – UK and USA deepen AI and computing cooperation on fusion energy | Digital Watch Observatory
