- Alcator C-Mod - A research fusion experiment utilizing the world's highest magnetic field tokamak plasma confinement concept.
- ASDEX Upgrade Fusion Experiment - Experimental tokamak facility at Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Germany.
- CASTOR - A fusion research facility (a tokamak) of the Academy of Sciences of The Czech Republic, Institute of Plasma Physics.
- Consorzio RFX - A fusion energy experiment in Padova, Italy. RFX is a toroidal device where a ring of high temperature plasma is confined by a magnetic field in the Reversed Field Pinch configuration.
- Fusion Ignition Research Experiment (FIRE) - A proposed next-step fusion experiment to study burning plasma physics based on the tokamak concept. The website provides goals, program information, and a list of publications.
- Fusion Plasma Physics at KTH (Sweden) - Plasma physics program at The Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan).
- HBT-EP Tokamak - Experiment at the Columbia University Plasma Physics Laboratory to demonstrate the feasibility of a high-beta tokamak stabilized by a combination of a close-fitting conducting wall, plasma rotation, and active feedback.
- HSX - Helically Symmetric eXperiment is a university scale plasma experiment based on the large-aspect-ratio helically-symmetric stellarator approach. University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
- IGNITOR - A proposed next-step fusion experiment to study burning plasma physics in a relatively small device.
- ISTTOK Tokamak - Tokamak plasma research experiment based at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Portugal. Website includes tokamak description, photos, objectives, and physics program.
- ITER - A proposed international experimental fusion reactor based on the tokamak concept. ITER's mission is to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion energy for peaceful purposes.
- JAEA - Japan Atomic Energy Agency's website provides information on magnetic fusion plasma research in Japan, including that for the large Japanese tokamak JT-60.
- Joint European Torus (JET) - The world's largest magnetic confinement fusion experiment. News, fusion basics, and scientific information. Culham, United Kingdom.
- KSTAR - Korean superconducting tokamak advanced research project is a superconducting tokamak facility for controlled fusion research. First plasma was obtained in 2008. One of the main goals is long-pulse non-inductive plasma heating and current drive.
- Large Helical Device (LHD) - The largest current fusion experiment based on the stellarator concept. Located at NIFS, Japan. The mission of the LHD project is to develop a scientific basis for stellarator fusion reactor. An important feature in the LHD design is a high magnetic field of 3-4 Tesla produced by superconducting magnets.
- Levitated Dipole Experiment - Device to explore the physics of plasma confinement in a magnetic dipole field.
- Magnetic Confinement Fusion - Article from Wikipedia on the generation of energy using magnetic fields to confine the fusion fuel in the form of a plasma.
- MAST - Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak experiment at Culham, UK, with information on MAST research, its history and planned upgrades, as well as links to other fusion research experiments in Europe.
- National Compact Stellarator Experiment - NCSX is a compact stellarator concept based on quasi-toroidal symmetry.
- PEGASUS Toroidal Experiment - Extremely low-aspect-ratio tokamak experiment at the Department of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- QPS Project - A project to explore the quasi-poloidal approach to compact stellarators. Project reports and reviews.
- Spherical Stellarator - Describes the concept and its development.
- Spheromak - The spheromak is a toroidal magnetic confinement concept where no toroidal magnetic field coils link the torus. The magnetic field is generated primarily by plasma currents.
- Stellarator News - An international newsletter containing online publications on stellarators and links to some other stellarator web pages.
- STX - Star Thrust Experiment at the University of Washington is an FRC (field reversed configuration) plasma startup experiment via application of a rotating magnetic field.
- Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment (SSPX) - Spheromak now operating at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with a minor radius of 0.23m.
- TCS Experiment - The translation, confinement and sustainment FRC (field reversed configuration) experiment at the University of Washington.
- TFTR - The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor experiment that was a large US fusion experiment directed by the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. Stopped operation and decommissioned by 2000.
- The SST-1 Tokamak - Steady State Superconducting Tokamak at the Institute for Plasma Research, Gugarat, India, has an objective of a steady-state operation via the RF and NBI plasma heating and current drive.
- Wendelstein 7-X - Large fusion experimental machine currently under construction in Greifswald, Germany; based on the large-aspect-ratio advanced stellarator concept.
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