Controlled fusion in Germany running activities and future program

The main items of the German Fusion Program are described. Within the next five-year plan emphasis is placed on plasma physics research, especially on the tokamak line which will be supplemented by stellarator and high-β experiments. Technological development is concentrated on superconducting magnets and heating and refuelling systems to support plasma physics advance. In the reactor oriented part of the program, systems studies play the major role. Further work will predominantly be performed in the fields of material sciences and tritium technology, which are considered to be independent of a special confinement scheme