EUROfusion

EUROfusion is a consortium of national fusion research institutes located in the European Union, Switzerland and Ukraine. 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]

EUROfusion
Founded2014
HeadquartersGarching, Germany
Websiteeuro-fusion.org

Organisation

The EUROfusion consortium agreement has been signed by 30 research organisations and universities from 25 European Union countries plus Switzerland, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.[2]

CountryParticipating Laboratory
AustriaAustrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
BelgiumEcole Royale Militaire-Koninklijke Militaire School, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Brussels
BulgariaBulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia
CroatiaRuđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb
CyprusUniversity of Cyprus, Nicosia
Czech RepublicAcademy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Plasma Physics, Prague
DenmarkDTU, Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy, Lyngby
EstoniaUniversity of Tartu, Institute of Physics
FinlandVTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo
FranceCommissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, CEA, Cadarache
GermanyForschungszentrum Jülich, FZJ; Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT; Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, IPP, Garching and Greifswald
GreeceNational Center For Scientific Research "DEMOKRITOS", Athens
HungaryHungarian Academy of Science, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest
IrelandDublin City University, Plasma Research Laboratory
ItalyAgenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile, ENEA (Italy), Frascati
LatviaUniversity of Latvia, Institute of Solid State Physics, Riga
LithuaniaLithuanian Energy Institute, Kaunas
The NetherlandsFOM, Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter, Utrecht
PolandInstitute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Warsaw
PortugalUniversidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico, IPFN
RomaniaInstitutul de Fizica Atomica (IFA), Illfov
SlovakiaComenius University, Department of Experimental Physics, Bratislava
SloveniaJSI Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
SpainCentro de Investigataciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, (CIEMAT), Madrid
SwedenVetenskapsrådet, Stockholm
SwitzerlandÉcole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFL, Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), Lausanne
UkraineKharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (KIPT), Kharkiv
United KingdomCulham 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:

DeviceDevice typeInstitute/Location
ASDEX UpgradeTokamakIPP Garching, Germany
TCV TokamakTokamakÉcole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Tungsten (W) Environment in Steady-state Tokamak or WESTTokamakCEA, France
Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak or MAST UpgradeSpherical tokamakCCFE, United Kingdom
Wendelstein 7-X stellaratorStellaratorIPP at the Greifswald branch
TJ-II stellaratorStellaratorLaboratorio Nacional de Fusión, CIEMAT, Spain
Plasma-Wall Interaction in Linear Plasma Devices, PSI-2Linear devicesFZJ, Jülich, Germany
PILOT-PSILinear devicesFOM, DIFFER, The Netherlands
MAGNUM-PSILinear devicesFOM, DIFFER, The Netherlands

References
  1. "Europe launches EUROfusion to make fusion energy a reality". Horizon 2020 Projects. Archived from the original on 2017-08-30. Retrieved 2015-07-10.
  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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