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.

Projects

• Materials studies
• TecnoFus
• TecnoFusión

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
  • Lince
  • Fenix
  • Euler
• The Barcelona Supercomputing Centre
• BIFI (at the University of Zaragoza)
• EGEE
• Ibercivis

Collaborations

The Laboratory participates in many international projects, such as:

• JET-EFDA
• ITER

External Links

Website of the Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión

Website of CIEMAT