Challenges and Opportunities for Nuclear Fusion to Replace Fossil Fuels
Join us on April 16th at 4:30 PM to discuss Challenges and Opportunities for Nuclear Fusion to Replace Fossil Fuels: Reality Versus Hype
Challenges and Opportunities for Nuclear Fusion to Replace Fossil Fuels
16 Apr 2025, 16:30 – 18:00
Join in person at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at 11 Montague Street London WC1B 5BP or via Zoom here (https://ucl.zoom.us/j/93111662085)
Join us for a compelling conversation at the intersection of science, innovation, and public purpose. The talk will be followed by informal drinks.
About this talk:
Dr Ernesto Mazzucato will be presented by Prof. Mariana Mazzucato his loving daughter and Founding Director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)
For the last 50 years, Dr Ernesto Mazzucato (fellow of the American Physical Society) has contributed path-breaking advances in nuclear fusion, published in hundreds of journal articles. Electromagnetic Waves for Thermonuclear Fusion Research, World Scientific (2014) These diagnostic techniques have become standard tools of Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion Research. His talk will present his latest research, as well as his critical stance on the way that nuclear fusion is currently undertaken, casting serious doubt on the common statement that nuclear fusion energy is 30 years away.
The talk will begin at 4:30 pm, followed by a 40-minute lecture and 30 minutes for Q&A. At 6 pm, you will be able to join the speakers to share a glass of wine in the IIPP garden—to welcome the Spring season!
A fellow of the American Physical Society and a pioneer in nuclear fusion, Dr Ernesto Mazzucato has spent over five decades advancing this critical field. At Princeton University’s Plasma Physics Laboratory (1965-2014), he developed diagnostic techniques that have become standard tools in Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion Research—insights he shared in his book Electromagnetic Waves for Thermonuclear Fusion Research (World Scientific, 2014).
Mariana Mazzucato is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London where she is the founding director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. Her work challenges orthodox thinking about the role of the state and the private sector in driving innovation; how economic value is created, measured and shared; and how market-shaping policy can be designed in a ‘mission oriented way’ to solve the grand challenges facing humanity.
Further information
Related events
Synergies and Co-benefits of a clean energy transition in China
Join us for a lecture by Denise L. Mauzerall, Professor of Environmental Engineering and International Affairs at Princeton University
The Bartlett School of Planning undergraduate virtual open day
Join our planning undergraduate virtual open day to discover our three bachelor's degrees in urban planning, design and management, urban planning and real estate, and urban studies.
CRUNCH: Research through Architectural Practice
Award-winning architect Anna Heringer on architecture as a tool for sustainability and social change, with Yeoryia Manolopoulou, Tracy Meller and David Storring.