EUROfusion - Realising Fusion Energy
EUROfusion supports and funds fusion research activities on behalf of the European Commission’s Euratom programme.
About EUROfusion - EUROfusion
Mission EUROfusion's mission is to pave the way for fusion power reactors. To do so, the consortium funds the research at 28 of its members (in 26 EU member states) on the basis of the "European Roadmap to the Realisation of Fusion Energy" as a joint programme within Euratom Horizon Europe.
JET - EUROfusion
The Joint European Torus (JET), the heart of global fusion research at the UKAEA campus in Culham, UK, has concluded its operational journey with pulse number 105,842 on 18 December 2023. This final pulse marks a significant milestone, coming over four decades after JET’s inception. Managed by EUROfusion and supported by a vast network of over 31 European laboratories, JET has been ...
The EUROfusion Programme - EUROfusion
The EUROfusion programme is based on the Roadmap to the Realisation of Fusion Energy. The programme has two main pillars: Preparing for ITER experiments; Developing a concept for the future demonstration fusion power plant DEMO; Twenty-eight of the European consortium members, receive funding from Euratom for fusion projects in accordance with their participation in the missions and ...
Roadmap - EUROfusion
The EUROfusion roadmap forms the basis for the programme of EUROfusion and provides a clear and structured way forward to commercial energy from fusion.
History of Fusion - EUROfusion
Fusion is the most dominant reaction in our observable universe and it is the reaction that powers our Sun and the stars. However, the science and physics of nuclear fusion started becoming clear only in the 1920s when British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington suggested that stars draw their energy from the fusion of hydrogen into helium. Eddington's theory was …
Consortium Members - EUROfusion
To realise fusion, the EUROfusion consortium brings together 4800 researchers, staff and students from its 28 member institutes, 3 associated partners, and 162 affiliated entities from across Europe.
DEMO - EUROfusion
While the central requirements for DEMO lie in its capability to generate between 300 Megawatt to 500 Megawatt net electricity to the grid and to operate with a closed fuel-cycle, meaning spent tritium fuel will be reprocessed, the Fusion Technology team is looking at requirements that will lay the foundation for a robust conceptual design:. Selecting the right breeding blanket.
What is Fusion? - EUROfusion
Nuclei of lighter atoms such as hydrogen collide and fuse to produce nuclei of heavier atoms such as helium and release vast amounts of energy in the process —this is the essence of fusion. Because the energy is derived from the action of nuclei, fusion is a form of nuclear energy. It may be considered the opposite of fission, also a form of nuclear energy, which is …
Fusion on Earth - EUROfusion
The tokamak. The most advanced and best investigated fusion device design available today is the tokamak.Tokamak is a Russian acronym for the term Тороидальная Камера с Магнитными Катушками meaning a torus-shaped vacuum chamber surrounded by magnetic coils, which create a toroidal magnetic field. The largest operating tokamak today is EUROfusion’s ...