Experiments in the lab of Professor Farhat Beg at UC San Diego. Professor Beg is co-leading one of two teams of UC researchers awarded $4 million grants to accelerate progress toward a future powered by abundant, stable, zero-carbon fusion energy. (Credit: David Baillot / UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering)

The University of California has awarded $8 million in multicampus research grants, in partnership with UC-managed national laboratories, to accelerate progress toward a future powered by abundant, stable, zero-carbon fusion energy.

The UC Initiative for Fusion Energy provides two grants of $4 million over three years. The two winning teams are composed of UC faculty across a wide range of disciplines, representing five UC campuses and the UC-managed Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Labs. This research is funded by fee income the university receives for managing the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.

Learn more about what nuclear fusion is — and how UC is expanding California’s global leadership in the field — at the UC Newsroom!

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