Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión

The National Fusion Laboratory is part of CIEMAT.

The Laboratory is dedicated to the development of fusion by magnetic confinement as a future energy generation option. Research is mainly centered on the 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

Organization and personnel

Projects and research

• The TJ-II Project
• Plasma Physics at the LNF
• TECNO_FUS
• TechnoFusión

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 following computers:
  • JEN50 (SGI Origin system, already phased out)
  • Lince (HPC cluster)
  • Fenix (SGI Altix system w/ Itanium processors, currently being phased out)
  • Euler (Dell HPC cluster, 1152 Xeon cores, 13.8 Tflops)
• The Barcelona Supercomputing Centre
• The Spanish Supercomputing Network
• LUSITANIA
• BIFI (at the University of Zaragoza)
• EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-SciencE, a European computational grid)
• Ibercivis (Spanish computational grid)

Collaborations

The Laboratory participates in many international projects and collaborates with other institutions, such as:

• JET-EFDA
• ITER
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• NIFS
• JT-60SA
• Universidad Carlos III, Madrid
• Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
• Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Universidad de Zaragoza
• Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC)

Events

The Laboratory has organised many events, among which:

• The 21^st Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT, 2000)
• The 9^th EU-US Transport Task Force Meeting (TTF, 2002)
• The 32^nd European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics (EPS, 2005)
• The 15^th International Stellarator Workshop (ISW, 2005)
• The 12^th European Fusion Theory Conference (EFTC, 2008)
• The 18^th Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions (PSI, 2008)

External Links

Website of the Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión

Website of CIEMAT