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ARC and SPARC
ARC and SPARC are related compact, high-field tokamak fusion devices designed by MIT and Commonwealth Fusion Systems: SPARC a net-energy demonstration, ARC a 400 MW power plant.
ASDEX Upgrade
ASDEX Upgrade is a divertor tokamak at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, Germany, operating since 1991 as a testbed for the ITER fusion reactor.
COMPASS-U
COMPASS-U (COMPASS Upgrade) is a medium-size, high-magnetic-field tokamak under construction at the Institute of Plasma Physics in Prague, replacing COMPASS in 2021 to support ITER and address DEMO design challenges.
DIII-D
DIII-D is a tokamak fusion research facility in San Diego, California, operated by General Atomics and the largest magnetic fusion experiment in the United States.
Divertor Tokamak Test
The Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) is an experimental fusion facility under construction at the ENEA Frascati Research Centre near Rome, Italy, testing power-exhaust solutions for the ITER and DEMO reactors.
Globus-M
Globus-M (Глобус-М) is the first Russian spherical tokamak, built at the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in Saint Petersburg and first started up in 1999, later upgraded to Globus-M2.
Joint European Torus
The Joint European Torus (JET) is a tokamak fusion research facility at Culham, Oxfordshire, which set a record 69 megajoules of fusion energy before its final plasma in 2023.
JT-60SA
JT-60SA, meaning JT-60 Super Advanced, is a fully superconducting tokamak in Naka, Japan, jointly built by Japan and Europe to complement ITER, achieving first plasma in 2023.
KSTAR
KSTAR (Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research) is a superconducting tokamak in Daejeon, South Korea, that reached first plasma in 2008 to develop long-pulse fusion operation for ITER.
MAST Upgrade
MAST Upgrade is the United Kingdom's flagship spherical tokamak fusion experiment at Culham, Oxfordshire, which began operating in October 2020 and tests the Super-X divertor exhaust system.
Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak
The Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST) is a spherical tokamak at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in England, whose reengineered successor, MAST Upgrade, began operation in 2020.
National Spherical Torus Experiment
NSTX (National Spherical Torus Experiment) is a magnetic confinement fusion device at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory that tests the spherical tokamak, a compact, apple-shaped alternative to conventional tokamaks.
National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade
The National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade is a spherical tokamak fusion facility at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, the largest of its kind in the United States.
T-15MD
T-15MD (Токамак Т-15МД) is a Russian divertor tokamak at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, a modernized successor to T-15 that reached first plasma in 2021.