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Korea Institute of Fusion Energy

also known as KFE

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Sector
Fusion

163 in this dataset

Technology
Tokamak

10 developers pursuing it

Headquarters
🇰🇷Daejeon, KR

3 organisations in KR

Status
Active
Role
Research institute, Operator

What these terms mean

Every classification on this page, defined. These are controlled-vocabulary terms, so the same word means the same thing on every profile.

Research institute
A public or non-profit research body. Frequently operates devices it did not commercially develop.
Operator
Runs a facility, which may have been built by someone else.
Fusion
Organizations pursuing energy from nuclear fusion, and their dedicated supply chain.
Tokamak › › Tokamak
Doughnut-shaped magnetic confinement using a strong toroidal field plus a current driven through the plasma itself. The most-studied configuration, and the one ITER uses.

Where Korea Institute of Fusion Energy sits

Composed from records in this dataset, not from outside research. Every figure below is counted from what the site holds, so it moves when the data does.

Korea Institute of Fusion Energy is one of 10 organisations in this dataset pursuing tokamak.

It is one of 3 we hold in KR.

It operates 1 device in this dataset, none of which carries recorded performance figures.

Related organisations

Others pursuing the same approach, then others in the same country.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems Tokamak Maritime Fusion Tokamak Energy Singularity Tokamak General Atomics Tokamak Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Tokamak ITER Organization Tokamak Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics Stellarator NT-Tao Tokamak UK Atomic Energy Authority Spherical tokamak KAERI KR Seoul National University KR

Measured results

Results recorded on this operator’s devices. Design parameters — bore, field, dimensions — are excluded: a machine’s size is not something it achieved. 3 design parameters are held on the device pages.

Measured results for Korea Institute of Fusion Energy
DeviceMetric ValueStatusSource
KSTAR Plasma duration 102 s claimed2026-06 KSTAR sustains 100-million-degree plasma for 102 seconds in tungsten divertor campaign
KSTAR Ion temperature 8.6 keV claimed2024-03 Green light on continuous fusion plasma operations technology
KSTAR Fusion triple product (nTτ_E) 9.6 × 10¹⁸ m⁻³·keV·s claimed2014 Continuing progress toward fusion energy breakeven and gain as measured against the Lawson criteria
KSTAR Ion temperature 2 keV claimed2014 Continuing progress toward fusion energy breakeven and gain as measured against the Lawson criteria
KSTAR Energy confinement time (τ_E) 0.1 s claimed2014 Continuing progress toward fusion energy breakeven and gain as measured against the Lawson criteria
KSTAR Plasma current 2 MA claimed World Survey of Fusion Devices 2022
KSTAR Plasma duration 300 s claimed World Survey of Fusion Devices 2022
KSTAR Plasma duration 48 s superseded2024-02 Green light on continuous fusion plasma operations technology

Devices operated 1

KSTAR Tokamak Operating 11 measurements

Pursuing the same technology

Others in this dataset working on Tokamak.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems 🇺🇸 US Energy Singularity 🇨🇳 CN General Atomics 🇺🇸 US Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences 🇨🇳 CN ITER Organization 🇫🇷 FR Maritime Fusion 🇺🇸 US Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics 🇩🇪 DE NT-Tao 🇮🇱 IL UK Atomic Energy Authority 🇬🇧 GB

Sources

A source marked operator is the subject’s own publication. That is legitimate, and it is not independent confirmation. Methodology.