Click here for a full sized version of the below map showing locations across the United States where major fusion research is currently conducted.

Further information about institutions carrying out fusion and plasma physics research around the world can be obtained from the following links:

U.S. Institutions

Universities

• Auburn University

• College of William & Mary

• Columbia University - Home of the HBT-EP experiment. The Levitated Dipole Experiment is also being jointly operated by Columbia at MIT.

• 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 operated 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 - Sites for information on the Livermore/Davis Compact Toroid Injection Experiment Group and 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.  

• University of California at San Diego - Sites for the UCSD Plasma Theory Group and

  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 

• University of Maryland Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics (IREAP) and the University of Maryland Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics

• 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 - Home of the Madison Symmetric Torus (MST), the Pegasus spherical torus, and the Helically Symmetric Experiment

• University of Washington - The Plasma Science and Innovation (PSI) Center at the University of Washington

• West Virginia University

National Laboratories

• Argonne National 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
• Naval Research Laboratory
• 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.
• Virtual National Laboratory for Heavy-Ion Fusion
• Virtual Laboratory for Technology

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

• CEA Cadarache, France - TORE SUPRA, Magnetic Fusion Program

• University of Saskatchewan, Canada

• Centro de Fusao Nuclear-Associacao Euratom/IST, Europe

• 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), Italy at ENEA Frascati

• FZK Karlsruhe, Germany - Nuclear Fusion Project

• Imperial College, London University, Plasma Physics Group, UK

• ITER international site

• International Tokamak Physics Activity (ITPA) public site - private site here

• Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russia

• Joint European Tokamak (JET), UK

• JT-60U Tokamak, Japan

• KFA-Juelich, Germany

• Korean National Fusion Program

• Kyoto University Plasma Physics Laboratory, Japan

• Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), Germany

• Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan

• National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), Japan

- Large Helical Device (LHD)

• UMIST, UK - Plasma Physics Group

• United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)

• Weizmann Institute of Science(WIS), Israel - includes a comprehensive Plasma on the Internet page

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