Fusion Reactors

There are many fusion reactor research facilities in the United States and around the world. This is a synopsis of the ones I know of.

Magnetic Fusion Energy (MFE) Experiments

Tokamaks

• ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor)
• JT-60
• TFTR (Totkamak Fusion Test Reactor)
• CIT (Same as BPX) (Compact Ignition Tokamak)

Advanced Tokamaks

• Alcator C-Mod (MIT)
• D-IIID (General Atomics)
• HBT-EP (Columbia University)
• ET
• ASDEX-U (Axisymmetric Diverter Experiment) (Garching, Germany)
• FT-U (Italy)
• JET (Joint European Torus) (ECC)
• Textor (Germany)
• Tore Supra (France)
• JRT2-M (Japan)
• Triam-1M (Japan)
• K-Star (Korea)
• ATF (Advanced Toroidal Facility) (Oak Ridge National Laboratory--ORNL) (Shutdown 1994)

Electric Tokamaks

• Electric Totkamak (UCLA)

Spheromaks

Spherical Torus (ST)

• HIT-1 (Shutdown)
• START (UK) (Shutdown)
• TS-3 (Japan)
• HIT-II
• HIST (Japan)
• CDX-U
• TST-M (Japan)
• EDE (Brazil)
• TST-2 (Japan)
• TS-4 (Japan)
• Pegasus
• Globus-M (Russia)
• MAST (UK)
• NSTX (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey)

Stellarators

• HSX (Wisconsin)
• W7-AS (Germany)
• TJ-II (Spain)
• LHD (Japan)
• CHS (Japan)
• Heliotron J (Japan)
• W7-X (Germany)
• NCSX ?
• QOS ?

Compact Stellarator

Reversed-Field Pinch (RFP) Concept

(A magnetic confinement concept with no toroidal field, in which the plasma is essentially cylindrical in shape.)

• CPRF (Confinement Physics Research Facility) (Los Alamos National Laboratory--LANL) (Same as ZT-H) (Cancelled 1991)
• MST
• RFX (Italy)
• TPERX (Japan)
• TPE-RX

Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC)

• University of Washington (Self-Ordered)
• LDX (MIT) (Magnetic Dipole)

Levitated Dipole Fusion Concept

Open-Ended Magnetic Fusion Systems

Gas Dynamic Trap

Plasma with Strong External Drive

Magnetized Target Fusion

Indirect-Drive Inertial Fusion Energy

Direct-Drive Inertial Fusion Energy

Fast Ignition Approach to Inertial Fusion Energy

Heavy Ion Accelerators for Fusion

HIBALL-II

Cascade

HYLIFE-II

Prometheus-H

Osiris

BPX (Burning Plasma Experiment) (also called CIT) (Cancelled 1992)

CDX (Current Drive Experiment) (Princeton)

DIII-D (Doublet III-D) (General Atomics)

EBT (Elmo Bumpy Torus) (Cancelled 1985)

ETF (Engineering Test Facility)

ETR (Engineering Test Reactor--US generic term for ITER-scale device)