User Facilities at a Glance
FES User Facilities
The Fusion Energy Sciences program supports the following national scientific user facilities:
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General Atomics
DIII-D, the largest magnetic fusion user facility in the U.S., is a tokamak confinement device with significant engineering flexibility to explore the optimization of the advanced tokamak approach to fusion energy production.
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Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
NSTX is a magnetic confinement fusion facility employing a spherical torus confinement configuration to explore the potential stability and confinement advantages of this compact tokamak concept.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alcator C-Mod is a compact, high magnetic field tokamak device with all metal walls, used for tokamak research requiring high plasma power densities.
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