Other Fusion and Plasma Physics Resources on the Internet
Note: These links will open new windows since they carry one outside of the FusEdWeb "portal".
Education and Public Outreach-Oriented Web Sites
- The Internet Plasma Physics Education eXperience (IPPEX)
- Fusion Education at General Atomics
- Be sure to visit the Web-based Fusion "Slide Show" by General Atomics' Fusion Group.
- Inertial Fusion Energy Tutorial at U.C. Berkeley
- Office of Fusion Energy Sciences at the U.S. Department of Energy.
- Plasma Science and Technology Home Page - more than you ever wanted to know about plasmas!
- Plasma Coalition outreach page
Professional Organizations
- American Institute of Physics (esp. their Public Email Lists):
- AIP FYI Bulletins - Information about science funding, including fusion
- Physics News Update - Major physics news stories, including fusion (technical)
- American Nuclear Society
- American Physical Society
- Australian Institute of Energy
- European Physical Society
- Fusion Power Associates
- Fusion Program Notes e-newsletter
- Meeting Calendar
- IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society
- Institute of Physics
- National Academy Press:
- University Fusion Association (UFA)
Business and Industry Sites
- 4th State, Inc. (Plasma Processing Equipment)
Laboratory, University, and Project Home Pages
A more comprehensive listing is the Plasma on the Internet page maintained at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. It's for all of plasma physics.United States - Universities
- Auburn University - Plasma Physics
- Caltech - Bellan's Group
- Columbia University - Applied Physics
- Georgia Tech Fusion Research Center and Nuclear Engineering
- Hampton University Center for Fusion Research and Training
- Lehigh University Physics Department
- MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- North Caroline State University Department of Nuclear Engineering
- Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
- Princeton University Graduate Program in Plasma Physics
- Plasma Dynamics Laboratory (at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY) Space Science Institute (at the University of Colorado, Boulder)
- University of California, Berkeley (UCB) -
- Nonneutral Plasmas (Fajans Group, Dept. of Physics),
- Nuclear Fusion (Dept. of Nuclear Engineering) and the
- Plasma Theory and Simulation Group (Dept. of Electrical Engineering)
- University of California, Davis (UCD) - Fusion
- University of California, Irvine - Plasma Physics, within the Physics and Astronomy department.
- University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) - Plasma Physics
- University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Fusion
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) - Nuclear Engineering
- University of Maryland, Institute for Plasma Research
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Nuclear Eng. and Radiological Sciences
- University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- University of Texas
- University of Wisconsin - Madison - Fusion Programs
- William & Mary - Plasma Physics
United States - National and Private Laboratories
- Argonne National Laboratory - Technology Development Programs. Also Fusion Power Program
- Boeing Aerospace High Energy Systems (working on ITER)
- Office of Inertial Fusion and the National Ignition Facility Project, U.S. Department of Energy
- General Atomics Fusion Group (GA) - Educational Site
- General Atomics Fusion Group (GA) - Technical Site
- Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory (LLNL)
- National Ignition Facility at Livermore
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), including
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Fusion Division (ORNL)
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, operated by the University of Rochester.
- Sandia National Laboratories
- In particular Pulsed Power Technology and
- High Energy Density and Inertial Confinement Fusion )
- Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colorado
Outside the United States
- Alfven Laboratory, Sweden (Fusion; also Plasma Physics)
- Australian Fusion Research Group
- Canadian Center for Magnetic Fusion (and the Tokamak de Varennes)
- Centro de Fusao Nuclear-Associacao Euratom/IST (Portugal)
- Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
- CIEMAT Fusion, Madrid, Spain
- Consorzio di Magnetofluidodinamica, Trieste, Italy
- CRPP-EPFL (Centre de Recherches en Physique des Plasmas, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Culham / UKAEA Fusion (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority fusion research lab at Culham)
- Czech Academy of Sciences - Institute of Plasma Physics (including the tokamak CASTOR)
- Darmstadt, Germany - Arbeitsgruppe Laser- und Plasmaphysik at the Institut für Angewandte Physik
- Frascati Tokamak - Upgrade (Frascati, Italy)
- Fusion BFR International Working Group
- GSI, Darmstadt, Germany - Heavy Ion Accelerator - Plasma and Beam Physics
- Imperial College (London) Plasma Physics
- INRS- Énergie & Matériaux, Quebec, Canada
- Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI), Naka, Japan
- JT-60U, Japanese tokamak project
- Joint European Torus (JET-EFDA), Culham, England
- Juelich, Germany - Institut fur Plasmaphysik at Forschungszentrum Juelich (Textor)
- Large Helical Device (LHD), superconducting stellarator project in Japan.
- LULI - France (ICF)
- Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany
- KFKI-RMKI Plasma Physics, Budapest, Hungary (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
- National Institute for Fusion Science, Nagoya, Japan
- PSI (Paul Scherrer Institute), Villigen, Switzerland.
- Tore Supra, Cadarache, France
- UKAEA/Fusion (Culham) (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority fusion research lab at Culham)
- Weizmann Institute of Science, Plasma Laboratory, Israel
Other Extensive Lists of Fusion and Plasma Physics Sites
- Plasma on the Internet (Weizmann Institute, Israel) This has over 150 links to plasma sites around the world, grouped by country.
- The Plasma Science and Technology Home Page (Tim Eastman) This also has many links; includes fusion within the broader scope of plasma science and technology.
- General Atomics' Fusion Research Index
- MIT - Kevin Wenzel's List of Fusion Pages This has over 100 links, but - Editorial Comment - last time I checked it wasn't very organized.
- University of Illinois - American Nuclear Society Student Section
- The Internet Pilot to Physics (TIPTOP), from the Institute of Physics (UK) - all of physics
- Yahoo's Index of Fusion Sites
Internet Newsgroups
- sci.physics.plasma (moderated)
- sci.physics.fusion (unmoderated)
- Archives (1989 to 1995) (archived at FusEdWeb)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory