Fusion Energy Masterclass Series

Powering Tomorrow: Understanding the Science and Promise of Fusion

Explore the science, engineering, and global ambition behind fusion energy through expert-led sessions and real-world insights. Learn how researchers aim to recreate the ‘power of the Sun on Earth’ and why this breakthrough could transform the world's energy future through Jio Institute’s Fusion Energy Masterclass Series. Discover where India stands in this global effort—and what opportunities fusion research opens for academia, industry, and policy.

What is Fusion Energy?

Fusion energy is the process that powers the Sun and stars. It occurs when light atomic nuclei combine under extreme heat and pressure to form heavier elements, releasing enormous energy. Scientists are working to recreate this process on Earth to produce clean, safe, and virtually limitless power.

Unlike fossil fuels, fusion generates no carbon emissions. Unlike nuclear fission, it produces no long-lived radioactive waste and carries no risk of meltdown. Achieving controlled fusion requires temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius—far hotter than the Sun's core—where atoms can overcome their natural repulsion and fuse together.

Key Facts About Fusion Energy

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A single kilogram of fusion fuel can produce the same energy as 10 million kilograms of coal.

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Fusion fuel sources (deuterium & tritium) are abundant—deuterium comes from seawater, while tritium can be bred from lithium.

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Fusion reactions produce helium — a clean, non-toxic, and non-radioactive byproduct.

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The ITER project in France is the world’s largest fusion experiment, involving 35 countries.

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India is one of seven members of ITER, contributing advanced components and scientific expertise.

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Commercial fusion power plants could provide clean baseload electricity for millions of homes.

With billions of dollars flowing into fusion research and India taking a strategic role in global projects, understanding fusion energy today means positioning yourself at the forefront of tomorrow's clean-energy landscape.

Programme Overview

Fusion energy represents one of the most ambitious scientific endeavours of our time, offering the prospect of abundant, clean, and virtually limitless power without greenhouse gas emissions or long-lived radioactive waste. Achieving this requires recreating the extreme conditions found at the core of the Sun, where temperatures rise above 100 million degrees Celsius and matter exists as plasma. Controlling and confining this ultra-hot plasma long enough to produce practical energy remains one of the most formidable scientific and engineering challenges in the transition from laboratory research to grid-scale fusion power.

This masterclass series cuts through the complexity to explain how fusion works, why it matters, and how close we are to making it a reality. Designed for professionals across disciplines, the series equips participants to understand the science, follow global progress, and identify the opportunities emerging across academia, industry, research, and policy.

What Will the Masterclass Series Entail?

This series brings together leading researchers, engineers, and industry voices to explore fusion energy across its key dimensions: the physics that makes it possible, the engineering challenges being solved, the international collaborations accelerating progress, and the implications for energy policy, industry, and investment.

Each session builds on the last—taking you from foundational concepts to real-world applications, breakthroughs, and the future possibilities for global and national energy systems.