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Nuclear fusion in Europe

The map shows 12 fusion facilities and experiments in Europe.

Political outline map of Europe, map base by Maix and Tintazul, Wikimedia Commons

ITER

Cadarache, France

Aerial view of the ITER site during the construction phase in 2018
Oak Ridge National Laboratory / ITER Site

Major international tokamak project under assembly. ITER is to investigate fusion under conditions close to those of a power plant.

TypeTokamak
StatusUnder construction

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All facilities as a list

  • ITER

    Cadarache, France

    Major international tokamak project under assembly. ITER is to investigate fusion under conditions close to those of a power plant.

    Type
    Tokamak
    Status
    Under construction

  • ASDEX Upgrade (AUG)

    Garching near Munich, Germany

    An important tokamak of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. It investigates plasma and divertor physics under conditions close to those of a power plant.

    Type
    Tokamak
    Status
    In operation

  • WEST

    Cadarache, France

    The tungsten environment tester WEST investigates long plasma discharges and divertor components under ITER-relevant conditions.

    Type
    Tokamak
    Status
    In operation

  • TCV

    Lausanne, Switzerland

    The variable configuration tokamak at the Swiss Plasma Center investigates how the shape and behaviour of the plasma can be controlled deliberately.

    Type
    Tokamak
    Status
    In operation

  • MAST Upgrade

    Culham, United Kingdom

    A spherical tokamak operated by UKAEA. MAST Upgrade is the successor to the earlier MAST experiment; JET is a separate facility on the same site.

    Type
    Spherical tokamak
    Status
    In operation

  • JET

    Culham, United Kingdom

    The Joint European Torus was a separate tokamak experiment. It is not the predecessor of MAST Upgrade; experimental operation ended in 2023.

    Type
    Tokamak
    Status
    Operation ended

  • COMPASS-U

    Prague, Czechia

    COMPASS-U is being built in Prague as the successor to COMPASS. It investigates plasma exhaust and divertor concepts.

    Type
    Tokamak
    Status
    Under construction

  • Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT)

    Frascati, Italy

    The DTT is a tokamak under construction by ENEA. It is to be used to investigate heat exhaust solutions and solutions for future fusion facilities.

    Type
    Tokamak
    Status
    Under construction

  • Wendelstein 7-X

    Greifswald, Germany

    The large stellarator of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics investigates whether this concept is suitable for continuous operation and for future power plants.

    Type
    Stellarator
    Status
    In operation

  • Reversed-Field eXperiment

    Padua, Italy

    RFX-mod is a large reversed-field pinch experiment. It investigates plasma confinement and the active stabilisation of magnetically confined plasmas.

    Type
    Reversed-Field Pinch
    Status
    Research facility

  • EXTRAP T2R

    Stockholm, Sweden

    The medium-sized reversed-field pinch experiment at the KTH Alfvén Laboratory investigates plasma stability and active feedback control.

    Type
    Reversed-Field Pinch
    Status
    Research facility

  • TJ-II

    Madrid, Spain

    CIEMAT's flexible heliac stellarator investigates plasma confinement in different magnetic field configurations.

    Type
    Stellarator (Heliac)
    Status
    In operation