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- Alcator C-Mod - A research fusion experiment utilizing the world's highest magnetic field tokamak plasma confinement concept.
alcpc1.psfc.mit.edu/cmod
- Compact Helical System (CHS) - Compact stellarator experiment with aspect ratio A ~ 5. Located at NIFS, Japan. Latest news and coming events.
rd-w3server.nifs.ac.jp/chs
- Consorzio RFX - A fusion energy experiment in Padova, Italy. RFX is a toroidal device where a ring of high temperature ionized gas (plasma) is confined by a magnetic field in the Reversed Field Pinch configuration.
www.igi.pd.cnr.it
- DIII-D Relational Database - Contains information about fusion experiments at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility in San Diego, California.
d3dnff.gat.com/D3DRDB
- Fusion Ignition Research Experiment (FIRE) - A proposed next-step fusion experiment to study burning plasma physics. The site includes information related to FIRE, its engineering design, related publications and meetings.
fire.pppl.gov
- H-1NF - Australian fusion experiment based on the H-1 Heliac concept.
wwwrsphysse.anu.edu.au/prl/H-1NF.html
- Helicity Injected Torus - HIT-II is the experiment to develop a method of coaxial helicity injection as a means of producing current drive. Built at the University of Washington.
www.aa.washington.edu/AERP/HIT/hit.html
- HSX - Helically Symmetric eXperiment is a university scale plasma experiment based on the large-aspect-ratio helically-symmetric stellarator approach. University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
hsxa.ece.wisc.edu/home.html
- IGNITOR - A proposed next-step fusion experiment to study burning plasma physics in a relatively small device. This approach is based on the concept of a tokamak with very strong magnetic field, and is under development by an international team of plasma and fusion physicists.
www.frascati.enea.it/ignitor
- ITER - A proposed international experimental fusion reactor based on the tokamak concept. ITER's mission is to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion energy for peaceful purposes.
www.iter.org
- JT-60 Project at JAERI Naka Fusion Research Establishment - JT-60 is the largest fusion tokamak experiment in Japan, and one of the largest in the world.
www-jt60.naka.jaeri.go.jp
- KSTAR - Korean Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research. Fusion experiment based on the tokamak concept.
www.knfp.net
- Large Helical Device (LHD) - The largest current fusion experiment based on the stellarator concept. Located at NIFS, Japan.
www.lhd.nifs.ac.jp
- Levitated Dipole Experiment - Device to expore the physics of plasma confinement in a magnetic dipole field.
www.psfc.mit.edu/ldx
- Madison Symmetric Torus - MST is a research device based on the reversed field pinch concept. Built at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Operation began in 1988.
sprott.physics.wisc.edu/mst.htm
- MAST - Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak experiment at Culham, UK.
www.fusion.org.uk/mast/index.html
- National Compact Stellarator Experiment - NCSX is a compact stellarator concept based on quasi-toroidal symmetry.
www.pppl.gov/ncsx
- National Spherical Torus Experiment - NSTX is an experimental fusion device based on the spherical tokamak concept. Built at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
www.pppl.gov/projects/pages/nstx.html
- QPS Project - A project to explore the quasi-poloidal approach to compact stellarators. Site includes project reports and reviews.
qos.fed.ornl.gov
- Spherical Stellarator - The SS is a low aspect ratio compact stellarator concept emphasizing effective use of the plasma (bootstrap) current to reach high plasma pressure operation and improved confinement. The concept is most advantageous at aspect ratios R/a < 3.5.
www.highfactor.com/ss
- START - Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokamak fusion experiment at UKAEA Culham - it was a pioneering experiment based on the spherical tokamak concept. Operated 1991 - 1998. STARTs successor experiment is MAST.
www.fusion.org.uk/culham/start.htm
- Stellarator News - An international newsletter containing online publications on stellarators and links to some other stellarator web pages.
www.ornl.gov/fed/stelnews/stelnews.html
- Stellarator Spheromak - The stellarator-spheromak is a fusion concept with elements of spherical stellarator and spheromak configurations.
www.highfactor.com/ssp
- Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment (SSPX) - Spheromak now operating at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with a minor radius of 0.23m.
www.mfescience.org/sspx
- TJII Flexible Heliac - Euratom-SIEMAT fusion experiment based on the heliac concept.
www-fusion.ciemat.es/fusion/TJII/TJII.html
- Wendelstein 7-X - Large fusion experimental machine currently under construction in Greifswald, Germany; based on the large-aspect-ratio advanced stellarator concept.
www.ipp.mpg.de/ipp/w7x.html
- Joint European Torus (JET) - The world's largest magnetic confinement fusion experiment; it is based on the tokamak concept.
www.jet.efda.org
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