KSTAR
KSTAR (Korean Superconducting Tokamak Reactor) is a long pulse, superconducting tokamak being designed to explore advanced tokamak regimes under steady state conditions. A team of US national laboratories, universities, and industrial participants (including MIT, LLNL, ORNL, PPPL, and GA) are supporting the Korean National Fusion Program in the design of KSTAR.

EAST

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) is an experimental superconducting tokamak magnetic fusion energy reactor in Hefei, the capital city of Anhui Province, in eastern China. The experiment is being conducted by the Hefei-based Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The DIII-D Plasma Control System is being used by EAST and the DIII-D collaboration was instrumental in EAST's successful first plasma in late 2006.

NSTX

The National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) is an innovative magnetic fusion device that was constructed by the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in collaboration with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Columbia University, and the University of Washington at Seattle. NSTX is being used to study the physics principles of spherically shaped plasmas -- hot ionized gases in which nuclear fusion will occur under the appropriate conditions of temperature, density, and confinement in a magnetic field.

JET

JET, the Joint European Torus, is the largest nuclear fusion experimental reactor yet built. JET is equipped with remote handling facilities to cope with the radioactivity produced by Deuterium-Tritium (D-T) fuel, which is the fuel proposed for the first generation of fusion power plants. Pending construction of ITER, JET remains the only large fusion reactor with facilities dedicated to handling the radioactivity released from D-T fusion.