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Links to a few general tokamak sites

See the tables of tokamaks for links to sites for specific machines. The sites listed here will not all be found as links from the official fusion sites, but should give some insight into the technology.

Fusion movies

These links won't work if your network administrators don't allow streaming video, and some of them are REALLY LARGE files.

Excellent 10 minute video about DIII-D from Scientific American. (Via Google movies.)
Highly recommended, but perhaps most interesting for people who recognise tokamak hardware.

ITER - The Way to Fusion Power - part 1. A 6 minute European Commission video. (Via YouTube.com.)
Featuring shots of the outside of JET and inside of another tokamak (probably ASDEX-U?). Rather less technical. Contains good demonstrations of analogies to fusion concepts.

ITER - The Way to Fusion Power - part 2. The second part of the EC video. (Via YouTube.com.)
Showing plasma videos and movies of the inside of JET.

Fusion: Nature's Fundamental Energy Source 3/3 (Via YouTube.com.)
1996 General fusion video from General Atomics, with views of DIII-D tokamak.

Fusion movies from the extensive EFDA-JET public site.

More fusion movies from General Atomics.

Inside TEXTOR (Via YouTube.com.)
Movie of the inside of the German tokamak, TEXTOR, showing the Dynamic Ergodic Divertor.

START plasma (Via YouTube.com.)
Much slowed down video of the plasma in the START spherical tokamak

Plasma video of a rather short JET pulse. With sound. (Via Google Video.)

Movie about the FTU tokamak in English (or American), from ENEA, Italy. (Perhaps missing?)

Los Alamos Fast Camera System on TFTR showing some slow motion videos of disruptions on TFTR.

ITER's movie links.

Other links

European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA) - a large page of links from around the world.

Wikipedia's artiticle on Tokamaks for a good introduction to the technology and history. 

Wikipedia's artiticle on Spherical Tokamaks

FIRE Place, where you can find all the latest news about fusion, along with a wealth of technical literature on the subject.

See also another site run by a fusion enthusiast, , for all sorts of interesting links.

See also, the fusion glossary from PPPL, Princeton, or another glossary from UKAEA, Culham.

Somewhat out of date but quite comprehensive review of tokamaks around the world from 1979.

More details for a few machines can also be found at the table of fusion device data from NIFS in Japan.

Follow this link for a paper (dated 2000) describing some of the major machines and their contributions to the International Multi-Tokamak Profile Database. 

A blog that includes a few rants about fusion (among other things)

If you would like to suggest another general link to add to this page, please contact me.