Plasma Physics and
Controlled Nuclear Fusion
web sites

This is a list of web sites that particularly describe (world-wide) experiments to study the physics of nuclear fusion by magnetic confinement. There are more comprehensive plasma physics web site indices around, e.g.
Plasma on the Internet (Weizmann Institute of Science),
Nuclear fusion servers (University of Karlsruhe) .

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), operated under EFDA (European Fusion Development Agreement)
JT-60U tokamak ( JAERI, Japan )
H-1 Toroidal Heliac (Plasma Research Laboratory at the Autralian National University)
LHD stellarator ( NIFS, Japan )
MAST spherical tokamak ( UKAEA, United Kingdom)
MST toroidal reversed field pinch ( University of Wisconsin, WI, U.S.A. )
MT-1M tokamak ( RMKI Department of Plasma Physics , Hungary)
NSTX spherical torus (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, U.S.A.)
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
TJII flexible heliac (CIEMAT, Spain)
Wendelstein 7-X stellarator (IPP Teilinstitut Greifswald, 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

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

Directory of Plasma Conferences,
Nuclear Fusion (Journal, IAEA),
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (Journal, IOP Publishing), Physics of Plasmas, Journal of Nuclear Materials, ornl stellarator news,
Reversed field pinch bibliography
Books on Computational Fluid Dynamics

More general topics

The Energy Hotlist ( The Franklin Insitute Science Museum)

Wolfgang Suttrop, last update: 98/06/01