EFDA

The European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA) is an agreement between EURATOM, the European Commission and national research bodies, the European research activities in the field of nuclear fusion. EFDA had been headquartered in Garching.The Treaty entered into effect in 1999 and was originally to 2006, where he is now for another year has been extended.The EFDA objective is the scientific and technical base in Europe for both construction and operation of ITER as well as a future prototype reactor for them. To achieve this goal, EFDA coordinated the research activities of its affiliated institutions and also allows for all associations in European fusion experiments such as JET (Joint European Torus) in Britain.

Organisation

The EFDA currently has three subsidiaries, which also reflect the distribution of tasks. These three so-called Close Support Unit (CSU) are in Garching, Culham and Barcelona. The main task of these three CSUs is the coordination of all relevant research activities in relevant fields.The EFDA management consists of the EFDA Leader (Jerome Pamela), the EFDA Associate Leader for Technology (Maurizio Gasparotto) and the EFDA Associate Leader for JET.The CSU Garching for the field is physics and engineering with the following main tasks: European contribution to ITER; Long-term activities related to commercial fusion power plants; System Studies (safety aspects, energy scenarios, etc.)The CSU Culham is for the scientific program at JET.The main task of the CSU Barcelona are the preparations for the ITER project on the future location in Cadarache.

List of Associations

* Belgium
** Royal Military School (ERM / KMS)
** Free University of Brussels (ULB)
** The Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK / CEN)
* Bulgaria
** St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
** Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
** Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (IRNE)
* Denmark
** RISO
* Germany
** Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, Garching near Munich and Greifswald
** Juelich Research Centre, Institute of Plasma Physics
** Research Centre in Karlsruhe
* Finland
** National Technology Agency (Tekes)
* France
** CEA Cadarache
* Czech Republic
** Institute of Plasma Physics
* Greece
** Demokritos: INTRP Plasma Physics Laboratory
** FORTH IESL, Athens
** National Technical University of Athens
** University of Ioannina
* Ireland
** Dublin City University, Plasma Research Laboratory
** University College Cork
* Italy
** ENEA
** FTU Frascati Upgrade tokamak
** CNR Milan, Institute for Plasma Physics
** Consorzio RFX Padua
* Latvia
** University of Latvia, Institute of Solid State Physics
** University of Latvia, Institute of Physics
* Netherlands
** FOM Instute for Plasma Physics Rijnhiuzen
** NRG Petten
* Poland
** Institute for Plasma Physics and Laser Micro Fusion (IPPLM) Warsaw
* Portugal
** Instituto Superior Tecnico, Centro de Fusao Nuclear: Engineering Sciences Institute, IT Technical University of Lisbon
* Austria
** Austrian Academy of Sciences
* Romania
** MEC
** Institute of Atomic Physics
* Sweden
** the Swedish Research Council
** Royal College of Technology Stockholm
* Switzerland
** EPFL, Centre for Plasma Physics Research
* Slovakia
** Comenius University of Bratislava
** Slovak Technical University, Bratislava
** Slovak Academy of Sciences
* Slovenia
** Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
* Spain
** CIEMAT
* Hungary
** KFKI RMKI, Department of Plasma Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
** Budapest University of Technology and Economics
* United Kingdom
** UKAEA Culham Science Centre