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Culham

British  
/ ˈkʌləm /

noun

  1. a village in S central England, in Oxfordshire: site of the UK centre for thermonuclear reactor research and of the Joint European Torus (JET) programme

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Allotment newcomer Sandra Culham got her plot last August.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2021

From 2009 to 2016, he served as CEO of the UK Atomic Energy Authority and director of the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 6, 2020

“The long-term future worries the hell out of me,” says Steven Cowley, who directs the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Abingdon, UK.

From Nature • Jun. 27, 2016

The 16-year-old disappeared after entering the water at Culham, Oxfordshire, on Saturday evening.

From BBC • May 13, 2016

Mr. Coxe, the late Librarian of the Bodleian, was another of the Culham curates, the friend of a lifetime, whose farewell letter to Bessie was written shortly before his own death in 1881.

From Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind by Martin, Frances