EUROfusion/ITER/JET
ITER is an international fusion research experimental facility being built in France through a collaboration among 35 countries. ITER is building the world’s largest Tokamak, a fusion experiment based on the principle of magnetic confinement. ITER has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free energy source based on the same principle that powers our sun and stars. The infrastructure spurs high-quality research in areas like plasma diagnostics, material development, analysis of components that can withstand plasma, plasma control and integrated modelling.
EUROfusion is a European fusion research consortium, and Sweden’s membership gives Swedish researchers access to Europe’s most important fusion facilities, such as JET.
The Council for Research Infrastructures (RFI) funds this research infrastructure, which the Swedish Research Council considers to be in the national interest.
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Contact at Uppsala University
Göran Ericsson, Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
