Fusion Institutions

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Fusion Institutions

This page includes links to various U.S. and International institutions -- including Academic Institutions, Government Laboratories, and Private Industry -- with fusion or plasma physics programs. Please send suggestions for additions to this list or for corrections / updates to sc.fes@science.doe.gov.

U.S. Institutions

  Universities

• Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
• College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
• Columbia University - Home of the HBT-EP experiment. The Levitated Dipole Experiment is also being jointly operated by Columbia at MIT.
• California Institute of Technology- Bellan Plasma Group
• Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
• Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
• Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
• Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
• Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida
• Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
• Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia
• Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia
• Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
• Kansas State University, Lawrence, Kansas
• Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
• MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center - Provides overview of Alcator C-Mod tokamak experiment and sense of fusion research in a university environment. The Levitated Dipole Experiment is also being jointly operated by MIT & Columbia.
• New York University, New York, New York
• North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina
• Occidental College, Los Angeles, California
• Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
• Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas
• Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
• Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
• Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
• Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
• Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana
• Stanford University, Stanford, California
• Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
• Texas A & M University (TAMU), Nuclear Engineering Department, College Station, TX.
• Troy State University, Troy, Alabama
• University of Alaska, Fairbanks
• University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
• University of California at Davis - Sites for information on the Livermore/Davis Compact Toroid Injection Experiment Group and the Department of Applied Science.
• University of California at Irvine
• University of California at Los Angeles - Take a look at the UCLA LAPD (LArge Plasma Device) and the APEX (Advanced Power EXtraction Study). Laboratory for Micromechanics and Plasma Processing of Materials. Basic Plasma Research Facility. UCLA's Plasma Science and  Technology Institute.  
• University of California at San Diego - Sites for the UCSD Plasma Theory Group and other information on Confinement Systems/NSTX and Diagnostics activities.
• University of California at Santa Barbara
• University of Colorado Center for Integrated Plasma Studies
• University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
• University of Florida, Gainesville
• University of Houston, Houston, Texas
• University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign - Also the University of Illinois Fusion Studies Laboratory
• University of Iowa 
• University of Maryland Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics (IREAP) and theUniversity of Maryland Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics
• University of Missouri, Rolla, Missouri
• University of Montana Plasma Physics Group
• University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
• University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada
• University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
• University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
• University of Rochester Fusion Science Center
• University of San Diego, San Diego, California
• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
• University of Texas, Austin, Texas
• University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
• University of Wisconsin - Home of the Madison Symmetric Torus (MST), the Pegasus spherical torus, and the Helically Symmetric Experiment
• University of Washington - The Plasma Science and Innovation (PSI) Center at the University of Washington
• Utah State University, Logan, Utah
• West Virginia University
• Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois

  DOE National Laboratories

• Argonne National Laboratory
• Idaho National Laboratory
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Virtual Laboratory for Heavy-Ion Fusion
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Magnetic Fusion program - Also the National Ignition Facility (NIF), and the Laser Programs 
• Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory Plasma Physics site
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory  and the Virtual Laboratory for Technology
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Materials Program
• Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
• Sandia National Laboratories and the Z Pulsed Power Facility

  Other Government Laboratories

• Air Force Research Laboratory
• National Institute of Standards and Technology

• Naval Research Laboratory—Plasma Physics Division

  Private Industry

• CompX, Del Mar, California
• FAR-TECH, Inc., San Diego, California
• General Atomics - Good description of the DIII-D tokamak experimental program and basic educational introduction to fusion with General Atomics Group Education
• HyperV Technologies, Fairfax Station, Virginia
• Lodestar Research Corporation
• NOVA Photonics, Princeton, New Jersey
• Paratools, Inc., Eugene, Oregon
• Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, Colorado
• Woodruff Scientific Inc.

International Institutions

• Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic-Institute of Plasma Physics, Tokamak CASTOR
• Alfven Laboratory Division of Plasma Physics, Sweden
• Association Euratom - Risø National Laboratory, Denmark
• Australian Fusion Research Group
• CEA Cadarache, France - TORE SUPRA, Magnetic Fusion Program
• University of Saskatchewan, Canada
• Centro de Fusao Nuclear-Associacao Euratom/IST, Europe
• Centre de Recherches en Physique des Plasmas
• Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• CIEMAT, Spain
• ENEA, the Italian National Agency for New Technology, Energy and the Environment
• European Commission, DG-XII Fusion pages
• Frascati Tokamak Upgrade (FTU), Italy at ENEA Frascati
• FZK Karlsruhe, Germany - Nuclear Fusion Project
• Imperial College, London University, Plasma Physics Group, UK
• ITER international site
• International Tokamak Physics Activity (ITPA) public site
• Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russia
• Joint European Tokamak (JET), UK
• JT-60U Tokamak, Japan
• Research Center Juelich, Germany
• Korean National Fusion Research Institute
• Kyoto University, Japan
• Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), Germany
• Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan
• National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), Japan - Large Helical Device (LHD)
• UMIST, UK - Plasma Physics Group
• United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)
• Weizmann Institute of Science(WIS), Israel - includes a comprehensive Plasma on the Internet page

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