Institutions Involved in Fusion Research

Click to view a full size U.S. map showing locations where major fusion research is conducted.

Information about laboratories carrying out fusion research can be obtained from the following:

U.S. Institutions

Universities

Auburn University
Columbia University: Home of the HBT-EP experiment. The Levitated Dipole Experiment is also being jointly constructed by MIT & Columbia.

California Institute of Technology Bellan Plasma Group

MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Provides overview of Alcator C-Mod tokamak experiment and sense of fusion research in a university environment. The Levitated Dipole Experiment is also being jointly constructed by MIT & Columbia.

Swarthmore College

University of California at Berkeley: The UCB site also provides a tutorial and overview on Inertial Fusion Energy technology and economics.
University of California at Davis; The USCD Plasma Theory Group. For information on the Livermore/Davis Compact Toroid Injection Experiment Group For the Department of Applied Science.
University of California at Irvine
University of California at Los Angeles: Take a look at the UCLA LAPD (LArge Plasma Device) and the APEX (Advanced Power EXtraction Study). Laboratory for Micromechanics and Plasma Processing of Materials. Basic Plasma Research Facility. UCLA's Plasma Science and Technology Institute.; The Challenge Magazine (spring 97) has several interesting articles on fusion research.
University of California at San Diego. Site for other information on Confinement Systems/NSTX and Diagnostics activities.
University of Colorado Center for Integrated Plasma Studies

University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign: Also the University of Illinois Physics Department Outreach Program
University of Iowa Center for Magnetic Reconnection Studies

University of Maryland Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics (IREAP)
University of Maryland Fusion Science Center
University of Montana Plasma Physics Group
University of Rochester Fusion Science Center
University of Texas: Several innovative uses of the Web have been demonstrated here, including a virtual poster session presenting scientific results
University of Wisconsin

University of Washington; The Plasma Science and Innovation (PSI) Center at the University of Washington.
William & Mary
West Virginia University

Fusion Laboratories

Argonne National Laboratory
Columbia Plasma Physics Laboratory
Idaho National Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Magnetic Fusion program: Also the National Ignition Facility (NIF), and the Laser Programs
Los Alamos National Laboratory; and the Los Alamos National Laboratory Plasma Physics site.

National Fusion Energy Science
Naval Research Laboratory
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Science/Engineering Division (SEED)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Materials Program.
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory: Provides an overview of magnetic fusion energy, descriptions of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory projects and related news, and links to plasma physics educational sites, including the award winning Contemporary Physics Education Project (CPEP) Fusion Web Course. This is also the home for the excellent Fusion Ignition Research Experiment (FIRE) site.
Virtual National Laboratory for Heavy-Ion Fusion
Virtual Laboratory for Technology. VLT is located at the University of California at San Diego.

Industries

Boeing Associated Products - PISCES Upgrade Information
General Atomics: Good description of the DIII-D tokamak experimental program and basic educational introduction to fusion with General Atomics Group Education
Lodestar Research Corporation

Non-U.S. Institutions

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic-Institute of Plasma Physics, Tokamak CASTOR
Alfven Laboratory Division of Plasma Physics, Sweden
Association Euratom - Risø National Laboratory, Denmark
Australian Fusion Research Group
ITER Canada
CEA Cadarache, France; TORE SUPRA; Magnetic Fusion Program
Centre Canadien de Fusion Magnetique(English & French)-CCFM
Centro de Fusao Nuclear-Associacao Euratom/IST
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
CIEMAT, Spain
ENEA, the Italian National Agency for New Technology, Energy and the Environment
European Commission, DG-XII Fusion pages
Frascati Tokamak Upgrade(FTU), at ENEA Frascati
FZK Karlsruhe, Germany-Nuclear Fusion Project
Imperial College,London University, Plasma Physics Group
Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching (auf deutsch)
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor: General information about ITER.

International Tokamak Physics Activity (ITPA)

Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute -- Russia

Joint European Tokamak (JET)
JT-60U Tokamak at JAERI
KFA-Juelich, Germany
Korean National Fusion Program
Kyoto University Plasma Physics Laboratory
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), Germany
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) Large Helical Device (LHD)
UMIST Plasma Physics Group
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
UKAEA Fusion
Weizmann Institute of Science(WIS), Israel, with the comprehensive Plasma on the Internet page


Other Organizations


American Institute of Physics
American Physical Society
American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Nuclear Society

American Nuclear Society Fusion Energy Division

Coalition for Plasma Science
Contemporary Physics Education Project for Fusion

Fusion Facilities Coordinating Committee
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Fusion Power Associates

Plasma Science & Technology

Theory Coordinating Committee
University Fusion Associates

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