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EUROfusion
EUROfusion, formally the European Consortium for the Development of Fusion Energy, is a consortium of 31 European fusion research organizations, created in 2014 to coordinate fusion research under Euratom and design the DEMO power plant.
EUROfusion DEMO
EUROfusion DEMO, or EU-DEMO, is Europe's planned demonstration fusion power plant, designed to deliver 300 to 500 megawatts of net electricity to the grid with a closed tritium fuel cycle.
European Fusion Development Agreement
The European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA) coordinated European fusion research from 1999 to 2013, governing the JET facilities and the ITER contribution before the EUROfusion consortium replaced it.
Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak
EAST is a fully superconducting research tokamak at the Institute of Plasma Physics in Hefei, China, the first tokamak with fully superconducting coils, achieving first plasma in 2006.
Experimental Tokamak (Brazil)
The Experimental Tokamak (Brazil) covers Brazil's experimental tokamaks for fusion research: the spherical ETE at INPE, first plasma in 2000, TCABR at São Paulo, and NOVA-FURG.
Extrap T2R
Extrap T2R is a medium-sized reversed-field pinch magnetic confinement fusion experiment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, operating since 1994 as a European test bed for resistive wall mode feedback control.
First Light Fusion
First Light Fusion is a British fusion energy company founded in Oxford in 2011, known for projectile fusion and now developing its FLARE fuel system.
FLiBe
FLiBe is a molten salt of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride, developed at Oak Ridge in the 1940s and now a leading coolant and tritium breeder for fusion blankets.
FTU (tokamak)
FTU, or Frascati Tokamak Upgrade, was a compact, high-magnetic-field tokamak fusion experiment operated by ENEA at Frascati near Rome, with first plasma in 1990 and shutdown in 2019.
Fusion for Energy
Fusion for Energy (F4E) is a European Union joint undertaking created in 2007 and based in Barcelona that manages Europe's contribution to the ITER fusion project.
Fusion Industry Association
The Fusion Industry Association, founded in 2018 and based in Washington, D.C., represents private fusion companies, publishes the annual Global Fusion Industry Report, and advocates for fusion regulation separate from fission.
GAMMA 10 (tandem mirror)
GAMMA 10 is a tandem mirror plasma confinement device at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, the world's largest, operating since 1983 for controlled nuclear fusion research.
Gas-dynamic trap
The gas-dynamic trap (GDT) is an axially symmetric magnetic mirror device for plasma confinement, first proposed and studied at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk.
GEKKO XII
GEKKO XII is a twelve-beam neodymium glass laser for inertial confinement fusion research at Osaka University, Japan, completed in 1983 and reaching 20 kJ output.
General Fusion
General Fusion is a Canadian fusion energy company founded by physicist Michel Laberge in 2002, developing magnetized target fusion, which compresses magnetized plasma inside a liquid lithium liner.
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.
Heliac
A heliac is a type of stellarator, a magnetic fusion confinement device in which the magnetic axis winds helically around the torus, shaped by coils rather than plasma current.
Helically Symmetric Experiment
The Helically Symmetric Experiment (HSX) is a stellarator fusion research device at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the only stellarator in the world with a quasi-helically symmetric magnetic field configuration.
Helicity Injected Torus
The Helicity Injected Torus (HIT) is a series of plasma physics experiments at the University of Washington in Seattle that develop helicity injection current drive for magnetic confinement fusion.
Helion Polaris
Helion Polaris is the seventh-generation field-reversed configuration fusion prototype of Helion Energy in Everett, Washington, which in February 2026 demonstrated measurable deuterium-tritium fusion at 150 million degrees Celsius.
Heliotron E
Heliotron E is a helical magnetic-confinement fusion experiment built by Kyoto University, which began operating in 1980 and achieved a record 2 percent plasma beta for helical systems.
High Average Power Laser program
The High Average Power Laser program (HAPL) was a United States multi-institution research program, managed at the Naval Research Laboratory, that developed laser-driven inertial fusion energy from 1999 to 2008.
HIST (tokamak)
HIST (Helicity Injected Spherical Torus) is a small spherical tokamak operated by the University of Hyogo in Japan, built to test helicity injection as a non-inductive plasma current-drive method.
HL-1M
HL-1M was a medium-sized Chinese tokamak operated at the Southwestern Institute of Physics in Chengdu from 1994, created by upgrading the earlier HL-1 tokamak; its experiments formed the basis for the successor device HL-2A.
HL-2A
HL-2A is a medium-sized divertor tokamak at the Southwestern Institute of Physics in Chengdu, China, built partly from the former German ASDEX tokamak, with first plasma in 2002.
HL-2M
HL-2M, officially renamed HL-3, is a medium-sized copper-conductor tokamak built by the Southwestern Institute of Physics in Chengdu, achieving its first plasma in December 2020.
HL-3
HL-3 (中国环流三号), formerly known as HL-2M, is a tokamak at the Southwestern Institute of Physics in Chengdu, China, that reached electron temperatures above 160 million degrees.
HT-7
HT-7, short for Hefei Tokamak-7, was a superconducting tokamak operated by China's Institute of Plasma Physics in Hefei, commissioned in 1994 from a rebuilt Soviet T-7.
HTS magnet
An HTS magnet is a superconducting magnet made from high-temperature superconductor material, usually REBCO tape, operating at 20 to 30 K and central to compact fusion designs.
IGNITOR
IGNITOR is a compact, high-magnetic-field tokamak designed by MIT's Bruno Coppi to reach ignition in deuterium-tritium plasma without external heating, built as an Italian-Russian project.