Other Fusion Sites and Laboratories

HIT Group
Fusion Research on the UW Campus

The National Fusion Energy Web Site
The Mission of the National Energy Science Web Site is to advance fusion science and plasma physics research by providing a national, interactive repository of information. Hopefully, this site will be found useful by students of fusion science, researchers, and those generally interested in the scientific progress of this field.

THE INTERNET PLASMA PHYSICS EDUCATION EXPERIENCE!
This site includes interactive pages, with a virtual Tokamak, and a virtual magnetic stability module, among other things.

Magnetic confinement fusion plasma experiments

• ALCATOR-C tokamak, (MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center , U.S.A.)
• ASDEX Upgrade tokamak ( IPP Garching, Germany )
• CASTOR tokamak( IPP ASCR , Czech Republic)
• COMPASS-D tokamak ( UKAEA, United Kingdom)
• DIII-D tokamak, (General Atomics Fusion Group, U.S.A.)
• FTU tokamak ( ENEA Centro Frascati, Italy )
• Joint European Torus (JET) ( JET Joint Undertaking , United Kingdom)
• JT-60U tokamak ( JAERI, Japan )
• H-1 Toroidal Heliac (Plasma Research Laboratory at the Autralian National University)
• LHD stellarator ( NIFS, Japan )
• MST toroidal reversed field pinch ( University of Wisconsin, WI, U.S.A. )
• MT-1M tokamak ( RMKI Department of Plasma Physics , Hungary)
• RFX reversed field pinch ( Istituto Gas ionizzati of CNR , Italy)
• START spherical tokamak ( UKAEA, United Kingdom)
• STOR-M tokamak ( University of Saskatchewan , Canada)
• TEXTOR tokamak ( Institute of Plasma Physics at KFA Jülich , Germany)
• TCV tokamak ( EPFL - CRPP, Switzerland )
• Tore Supra (CEA Cadarache, France)
• TJIU torsatron ( CIEMAT, Spain)
• TJI tokamak ( CIEMAT, Spain)
• Wendelstein 7-AS stellarator (IPP Garching, Germany)

The ITER project:

The "Next Step" device in nuclear fusion by magnetic confinement might be the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor(ITER). Information is available from various sources: ITER San Diego Joint Work Site (CA, U.S.A.), IPP Garching (Germany), PPPL (Princeton NJ, U.S.A.), JAERI (Japan)

Upcoming fusion experiments:

• K-STAR (Korean Fusion R&D center), see also PPPL's U.S. K-STAR web site
• MAST spherical tokamak ( UKAEA, United Kingdom)
• NSTX spherical torus (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, U.S.A.)
• TJII flexible heliac (CIEMAT, Spain)
• Wendelstein 7-X stellarator (IPP Garching, Germany)
• Nevada Terawatt facility (formerly known as ZEBRA atLANL) Z-pinch at University of Nevada, Reno

Historical fusion experiments:

• TEXT tokamak ( University of Texas, U.S.A. )
• TFTR tokamak (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, U.S.A.)
• RTP tokamak ( FOM IPP ``Rijnhuizen'', The Netherlands )

Other fusion related websites

• The European Union Commission's Science, Research and Development programme on Controlled nuclear fusion
• The Numerical Tokamak Project, one of DOE Fusion programme's Grand Challenges
• Fusion Research at LLNL,
• Fusion Energy Division of ornl.
• Greg Hammett's Gyrofluid home page.

Educational web sites on nuclear fusion

• Focus On Fusion (UKAEA)
• The Internet Plasma Physics Education eXperience (IPPEX) (see the virtual tokamak) and Fusion Energy Education Site ( IPP Garching mirror), maintained by PPPL
• General Atomics Fusion Group Educational Home Page
• Fusion: The energy of the 21st century ( CIEMAT)
• What is fusion? (CFFTP, Canada)
• Vorlesungen (introductory lectures, in German) (Lehrstuhl Experimentelle Plasmaphysik, Uni Augsburg, Germany)
• Bruce D. Scott's Physics and Fusion Home Page
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• Scrape-off layer physics: experiment and modelling (viewgraphs of topical lectures by Ralf Schneider, IPP Garching)
• The Plasma Theory and Simulation group (University of Berkeley, California)
• CASTOR tokamak training scool 1997 (IPP ASCR )

Publications and Bibliographies