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[[File:Logo Laboratorio.png|400px|thumb|right|Logo of the Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión]]
The National Fusion Laboratory is part of [[CIEMAT]].

The Laboratory is dedicated to the development of fusion by [[Magnetic confinement|magnetic confinement]] as a future energy generation option.
Research is mainly centered on the [[TJ-II|Flexible Heliac TJ-II]], and on materials studies.

== History ==

In 1975, a research group is created at the JEN (later to become [[CIEMAT]]) to study the subject of fusion.
In 1983, the small tokamak [[TJ-I]] is taken into operation, followed by the torsatron [[TJ-IU]] in 1994, and the flexible heliac [[TJ-II]] in 1999.

== Organization ==

[[LNF:Organization|Organization]] and personnel

== Projects and research ==

* [[TJ-II|The TJ-II Project]]
* [[LNF:Plasma Physics|Plasma Physics at the LNF]]
* [[OLMAT]]
* [[LNF:Technology|Fusion Technology Division]]
** [[TECNO_FUS]]
** [[TechnoFusión]]
* [[ICTS|Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructure]]

== Educational and training activities ==

The LNF is strongly committed with the education and training of new researchers in the field of magnetic fusion science and technology. It keeps a close collaboration on post-graduate teaching activities with Universities [http://www.uc3m.es Carlos III], [http://www.ucm.es Complutense] and [http://www.upm.es Politécnica de Madrid]. CIEMAT participates with these two latter institutions in the [http://www.campusmoncloa.es Campus de Excelencia Moncloa]. In the last ten years, in average, three to four PhD thesis/year and four Master Thesis/year are being successfully finished in the LNF facilities.

The LNF is a major Spanish partner of the "European Master of Science in Nuclear Fusion and Engineering Physics ([[Fusion-EP]])", under the auspices of the [http://www.em-master-fusion.org/index.asp?p=162&a=162 Erasmus Mundus]. 
In this Master course, international students have six month-stays at LNF and receive lectures given by its staff, among others.
LNF is also actively participating in a new Erasmus Mundus programme-related initiative, the [http://www.em-fusion-dc.org Fusion-Doctoral College] recently established to host PhD students and supervise their thesis.
In both programmes, LNF participates in close collaboration with several national ([http://www.ucm.es Complutense] and [http://www.uc3m.es Carlos III], Madrid) and international universities and research institutions ([http://www.ugent.be/ Ghent Univ.], [http://www.univ-lorraine.fr Lorraine Univ.], [http://www.uni-stuttgart.de Stuttgart Univ.], [www.unipd.it/en/ Padova Univ.], [http://www.ist.utl.pt/en Instituto Superior Tecnico] (Lisbon), [http://irfm.cea.fr/gb/ ‎IRFM-CEA], [http://www.ipp.mpg.de IPP-Garching and IPP-Greifswald]).

== Computer resources ==

Due to the large computational needs of the Laboratory, it makes use of both internal and external resources through collaborations:

* The CIEMAT computing centre, with the High Performance cluster XULA
* [http://www.bsc.es/ The Barcelona Supercomputing Centre]
* [http://www.res.es/ The Spanish Supercomputing Network]
* [http://www.computaex.es/ LUSITANIA]
* [http://bifi.unizar.es/ BIFI] (at the University of Zaragoza)
* [http://www.ibercivis.es/ Ibercivis] (Spanish computational grid)

== Collaborations ==

The Laboratory participates in many international projects and collaborates with other institutions, such as:
* [https://www.euro-fusion.org/ EuroFusion]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER ITER]
* [[W7-X]]
* [http://www.ornl.gov/ Oak Ridge National Laboratory]
* [http://www.nifs.ac.jp/ NIFS]
* [http://www-jt60.naka.jaea.go.jp/english/index-e.html JT-60SA]
* [http://www.uc3m.es/ Universidad Carlos III], Madrid
* [http://www.tec.cr/sitios/vicerrectoria/vie/investigacion/plasma/Paginas/default.aspx Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica]
* [http://bifi.unizar.es/ Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI)], Universidad de Zaragoza
* [http://www.bsc.es/ Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC)]

== Events ==

The Laboratory has organised many events, among which:
* [http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0920379601005865 The 21<sup>st</sup> Symposium on Fusion Technology] (SOFT, 2000)
* [http://www-fusion.ciemat.es/ttf2002 The 9<sup>th</sup> EU-US Transport Task Force Meeting] (TTF, 2002)
* [http://www-fusion.ciemat.es/EPS05/ The 32<sup>nd</sup> European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics] (EPS, 2005)
* [http://www-fusion.ciemat.es/SW2005/ The 15<sup>th</sup> International Stellarator Workshop] (ISW, 2005)
* [http://plasma2.ulb.ac.be/EFTC/Documents_EFTC12_191206SHORT_MADRID/index.html The 12<sup>th</sup> European Fusion Theory Conference] (EFTC, 2008)
* [http://psi2008.ciemat.es/ The 18<sup>th</sup> Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions] (PSI, 2008)
* [http://www-fusion.ciemat.es/ttg2010/ The 3<sup>rd</sup> EFDA Transport Topical Group meeting and 15<sup>th</sup> EU-US Transport Task Force Meeting] (TTG-TTF, 2010)
* [http://fusionsites.ciemat.es/cwgm11/ 11<sup>th</sup> Coordinated Working Group Meeting] (Madrid, 2013)
* [http://fusionsites.ciemat.es/itpaep2014/ The 12<sup>th</sup> ITPA Energetic Particle Physics TG Meeting] (2014)
* [http://fusionsites.ciemat.es/gyrokineticsmadrid2014/ Gyrokinetic Theory Working Group Meeting] (2014)
* [http://fusionsites.ciemat.es/tcm-25/ 25<sup>th</sup> Technical Coordination Meeting of the JT-60SA Tokamak] (Avilés, 2016)
* [http://fusionsites.ciemat.es/gyrokineticsmadrid2016/ Gyrokinetic Theory Working Group Meeting] (2016)
* [http://fusionsites.ciemat.es/cwgm16/ 16<sup>th</sup>  Coordinated Working Group Meeting] (Madrid, 2017)
* [http://fusionsites.ciemat.es/ppmwpsa2017/ The 4<sup>th</sup> WPSA Project Planning Meeting] (2017) WPSA:Preparation and exploitation of JT-60SA (EUROfusion)
* [http://fusionsites.ciemat.es/kineticsmadrid2018 Kinetic Theory Working Group Meeting] (2018)
* [http://fusionsites.ciemat.es/kineticsmadrid2020 Kinetic Theory Working Group Meeting] (2020)
* [http://fusionsites.ciemat.es/cbbi21/ The 21<sup>th</sup> International Workshop on Ceramic Breeder Blanket Interactions] (2023)
* [http://fusionsites.ciemat.es/stellarator-optimization-madrid-2023/ Simons-CIEMAT Joint Meeting on Stellarator Turbulence Optimization] (2023)
* [https://isfnt2023.com/ The 15<sup>th</sup> International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT-15)] (2023)
* [https://www.icfrm-21.com/ 21st International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials] (2023)

== External Links ==

* [http://www.fusion.ciemat.es Website of the Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión]

* [http://www.ciemat.es/ Website of CIEMAT]