EUROfusion

EUROfusion
Founded 2014
Headquarters Garching, Germany
Website euro-fusion.org

EUROfusion is a consortium of national fusion research institutes located in the European Union and Switzerland. It was established in 2014 to succeed the European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA) as the umbrella organisation of Europe’s fusion research laboratories. The consortium is currently funded by the Euratom Horizon 2020 programme.[1]

Organisation

The EUROfusion consortium agreement has been signed by 29 research organisations and universities from 26 European countries and Switzerland.[2]

Country Participating Laboratory
Austria Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Belgium Ecole Royale Militaire-Koninklijke Militaire School, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Brussels
BulgariaBulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia
Croatia Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb
Cyprus University of Cyprus, Nicosia
Czech Republic Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Plasma Physics, Prague
Denmark DTU, Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy, Lyngby
Estonia University of Tartu, Institute of Physics
Finland VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo
France Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives,CEA, Cadarache
Germany Forschungszentrum Jülich, FZJ; Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT; Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, IPP, Garching and Greifswald
Greece National Center For Scientific Research "DEMOKRITOS", Athens
Hungary Hungarian Academy of Science, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest
Ireland Dublin City University, Plasma Research Laboratory
Italy Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile, ENEA (Italy), Frascati
Latvia University of Latvia, Institute of Solid State Physics, Riga
LithuaniaLithuanian Energy Institute, Kaunas
The Netherlands FOM, Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter, Utrecht
Poland Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Warsaw
Portugal Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico, IST IPFN
Romania Institutul de Fizica Atomica (IFA), Illfov
Slovakia Comenius University, Department of Experimental Physics, Bratislava
Slovenia JSI Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
Spain Centro de Investigataciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, (CIEMAT), Madrid
Sweden Vetenskapsrådet, Stockholm
Switzerland École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFL, Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), Lausanne
United Kingdom Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE), Host to JET

The EUROfusion’s Programme Management Unit offices located in Garching, near Munich (Germany), are hosted by the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP). The IPP is also the seat for the co-ordinator of EUROfusion.[3]

Activities

EUROfusion funds fusion research activities in accordance with the Roadmap to the realisation of fusion energy. The Roadmap outlines the most efficient way to realise fusion electricity by 2050. Research carried out under the EUROfusion umbrella aims to prepare for ITER experiments and develop concepts for the fusion power demonstration plant DEMO.[4] EUROfusion is in charge of the fusion-related research carried out at JET, the Joint European Torus, which is housed in the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK. Other fusion devices in Europe that devote some amount of time towards research under the EUROfusion framework include the following:

Device Device type Institute/Location
ASDEX Upgrade Tokamak IPP Garching, Germany
TCV Tokamak Tokamak École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Tungsten (W) Environment in Steady-state Tokamak or WEST Tokamak CEA, France
Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak or MAST Upgrade Spherical tokamak CCFE, United Kingdom
Wendelstein 7-X stellarator Stellarator IPP at the Greifswald branch
Plasma-Wall Interaction in Linear Plasma Devices, PSI-2 Linear devices FZJ, Jülich, Germany
PILOT-PSI Linear devices FOM, DIFFER, The Netherlands
MAGNUM-PSI Linear devices FOM, DIFFER, The Netherlands

References

  1. ↑ "Europe launches EUROfusion to make fusion energy a reality". Horizon 2020 Projects.
  2. ↑ "European Commission - PRESS RELEASES - Press release - Questions and Answers: Signature of the European Fusion Joint Programme – 'EUROfusion'". europa.eu.
  3. ↑ "Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik". mpg.de.
  4. ↑ "Contract between EC and EUROfusion is signed". fusenet.eu.

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