Fusion Energy

The Energy Powering the Universe Harnessed on Earth

The Sun (powered by Fusion Inside) Photo by NASA

 

What is Fusion?

Why do we need Fusion power?

How are we trying to make fusion work?

 

Talks

• Introduction to Plasmas and Fusion talk presented to teachers at the 1998 APS-DPP meeting in New Orleans and Seattle 1999 (in pdf format)
• Intro/Education talk in Washington
• Tokamak fields pdf
• Introduction to Space PDF
• Intro talk in html

Links to other sites with information on Fusion Energy

• Plasma on the Internet
  • site with many links to plasma /fusion information all over the world
• Department of Energy's Office of Fusion Energy
  • The US government site that largely runs Fusion research in the US
• DIII-D site at General Atomics
  • The home of DIII-D
  • GA's Excellent Fusion education site
    • Excellent source of understandable information
• Princeton's Plasma Physics Lab (PPPL) main site
  • This has links to many interesting pages (including TFTR's) at PPPL
  • PPPL's Fusion education site
    • Excellent source of information on fusion energy
• JET : The large Joint European Tokamak Home page
  • Information on JET plus links to many other sites
• Numerical Tokamak Home Page
  • Information on a computational grand challenge project to model plasmas
• The ITER Home Team Home Page
  • The home page of the US team for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, the next generation fusion experiment, now in the planning stages. (The main ITER site)

Links to other Energy sites

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