EFDA

The European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA ) is an agreement between EURATOM and the European Commission and various national research centers, organizes the European research activities in the field of nuclear fusion research. EFDA had been headquartered in Garching near Munich. What is the organizational design after the signing of the ITER Agreement (21 November 2006) is designed exactly, is still open.

The Treaty entered into force in 1999 and was originally to 2006, where he has now been extended for another year.

The individual national research bodies, so-called associations, complete with EFDA contracts on their research into nuclear fusion. The aim of EFDA is therefore the science and engineering base in Europe for the construction and operation of both ITER and a future prototype reactor to work out. To achieve this goal, EFDA coordinates the research activities of the devices connected to it and also allows all associations to participate in European fusion experiments such as JET (Joint European Torus) in the UK.

Organization

EFDA currently has three branches, which reflect the distribution of tasks. These three so-called Close Support Units (CSU ) located in Garching, Culham and Barcelona. The main task of these three CSUs is, the coordination of all relevant research activities in the relevant areas.

The EFDA management consists of the EFDA Leader ( Pamela Jerome ), the EFDA Associate Leader for Technology ( Maurizio Gasparotto ) and the EFDA Associate Leader for JET.

The CSU Garching is responsible for the field of physics and engineering with the following main tasks: the European contribution to ITER; Long-term activities related to commercial fusion power plants; System studies (safety aspects, energy scenarios, etc.)

The CSU Culham is responsible for the scientific program at JET.

The main task of the CSU Barcelona are the preparations for the ITER project in Cadarache site in the future.

List of associations

Currently, there are already more than 40 national associations that are bound with a contract to EFDA, including Switzerland.

  • Belgium Royal Military School ( ERM / KMS)
  • The Belgium Nuclear Research Centre (SCK / CEN)
  • St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
  • Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy ( IRNE )
  • RISO
  • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching and Greifswald
  • Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Plasma Physics
  • Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
  • National Technology Agency ( TEKES )
  • CEA Cadarache
  • Institute of Plasma Physics
  • NCSR Demokritos: INTRP Plasma Physics Laboratory
  • Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas, Athens
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • University of Ioannina
  • Dublin City University, Plasma Research Laboratory
  • University College Cork
  • ENEA
  • Frascati Tokamak Upgrade FTU
  • CNR Milan, Institute for Plasma Physics
  • Consorzio RFX Padova
  • University of Latvia, Institute of Solid State Physics
  • University of Latvia, Institute of Physics
  • FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhiuzen
  • NRG Petten
  • Institute for Plasma Physics and Laser Micro fusion ( IPPLM ) Warsaw
  • Instituto Superior Tecnico, Centro de Fusao Nuclear Engineering Research Institute IST, Technical University of Lisbon
  • Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • MEC
  • Institute of Atomic Physics
  • The Swedish Research
  • Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm
  • EPFL, Centre for Plasma Physics Research
  • Comenius University in Bratislava
  • Slovak Technical University in Bratislava
  • Slovak Academy of Sciences
  • Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
  • CIEMAT
  • KFKI RMKI, Department of Plasma Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • Technology and Economics University of Budapest
  • UKAEA Culham Science Centre
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