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The UK government published the Carbon Budget and Growth Delivery Plan on 29 October to meet Carbon Budgets 4-6 (2023-2037) and to accelerate the clean energy economy. The plan cites over £50 billion in private investment announced since last July, forecasts 400,000 additional clean energy jobs by 2030, and commits to household and industrial measures such as the Warm Homes Plan and an Investor Prospectus.

NVIDIA and General Atomics, with support from SDSC, ALCF and NERSC, announced an AI-enabled, high-fidelity digital twin of the DIII-D fusion reactor that uses NVIDIA Omniverse, CUDA-X and GPUs and trained three surrogate models on Polaris and Perlmutter. The digital twin, announced at NVIDIA GTC Washington, D.C., synchronizes with the physical DIII-D and serves ~700 scientists from 100 organizations to reduce simulation times from weeks to seconds.

The IAEA published the World Fusion Outlook 2025 highlighting ITER-led international collaboration, rising private investment (over US $10 billion) and MIT modelling of fusion deployment. The report focuses on technologies including HTS magnets and projects like SPARC and WHAM, and models scenarios where fusion could supply 10–50% of electricity by 2100 depending on costs.