EUROfusion is a consortium of national fusion research institutes located in the European Union, the UK, 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]
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| Founded | 2014 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Garching, Germany |
| Website | euro-fusion |
Organisation
editThe 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]
| Country | Participating Laboratory |
|---|---|
| Austria | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna |
| Belgium | Ecole Royale Militaire-Koninklijke Militaire School, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Brussels |
| Bulgaria | Bulgarian 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 |
| Lithuania | Lithuanian Energy Institute, Kaunas |
| The Netherlands | FOM, Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter, Utrecht |
| Poland | Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Warsaw |
| Portugal | Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico, 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 Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, (CIEMAT), Madrid |
| Sweden | Vetenskapsrådet, Stockholm |
| Switzerland | Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne |
| Ukraine | Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (KIPT), Kharkiv |
| 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
editEUROfusion 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 |
| WEST | Tokamak | CEA, France |
| MAST Upgrade | Spherical tokamak | CCFE, United Kingdom |
| Wendelstein 7-X stellarator | Stellarator | IPP at the Greifswald branch |
| TJ-II stellarator | Stellarator | Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión, CIEMAT, Spain |
| 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
edit- ^ "Europe launches EUROfusion to make fusion energy a reality". Horizon 2020 Projects. Archived from the original on 2017-08-30. Retrieved 2015-07-10.
- ^ "European Commission - PRESS RELEASES - Press release - Questions and Answers: Signature of the European Fusion Joint Programme – 'EUROfusion'". europa.eu.
- ^ "Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik". mpg.de.
- ^ "Contract between EC and EUROfusion is signed". fusenet.eu.