Jeff Bezos backing £300m British project to create limitless energy

Jeff Bezos is backing a $400million British fusion project to create limitless energy because the UK "still has the best" nuclear physicists.

The Amazon founder signalled a huge vote of confidence in Britain through General Fusion – a Canadian private firm he invests in. They announced last year that their new facility will be built at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, home to the UK's national fusion research programme. At the plant, General Fusion will test its Magnetised Target Fusion technology in the hope of making a breakthrough in replicating the fusion processes used by stars.

And fusion expert Richard Dinan says it's because England "still has the best nuclear physicists in the world".

He told Science Digest: "If you want to build a fusion power station or reactor, and you want to find the best talent pool, it would be in England.

"That is because the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy is, and that's where all the European scientists working on ITER (the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) are.