Local Facility Tours
Join your plasma physics community in Long Beach during one of the local facility tours offered in November!
Review the tour description details, date, available tour hours and click on the registration link below to pre-register.
For questions regarding the tours, reach out to each separate organizer listed below.
Tae Technologies, Foothill Ranch, CA
Come explore the systems, strategies and science behind TAE Technologies’ path to grid-ready fusion.
Location: TAE Technologies – 19631 Pauling, Foothill Ranch, CA 92610
Join us for a guided tour of TAE’s flagship research facility and get a rare, firsthand look at “Norm,” the optimized successor to our fifth-generation National Laboratory-scale device, “Norman.”
Purpose-built to validate our advanced beam-driven Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC) approach, Norm now operates with significantly greater efficiency, delivering best-in-class plasma performance with ~50% less system complexity and cost.
Through strategic reengineering, Norm achieved a historic first in fusion science: forming, heating and sustaining FRC plasma using only neutral-beam injection (NBI). Norm now powers hundreds of experiments each month, accelerating progress toward commercial fusion using aneutronic hydrogen-boron fuel for a clean, safe, scalable energy solution for the planet.
This tour is designed for scientists, engineers and technical leaders driving the future of energy, advanced physics and electrification.
Please note that guests are responsible for their own transportation. There is free on-site parking at TAE.
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2025
Time: Two tours available, 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm
Registration Here
Contact Persons
Hiroshi Gota hgota@tae.com and Abbey Goodman agoodman@tae.com
DIII-D National Fusion Facility, San Diego, CA
Exclusive DIII-D National Fusion Facility Tour for APS DPP Participants
As the largest operating tokamak in the U.S., DIII-D plays a leading role in advancing fusion science and technology. Operated by General Atomics on behalf of the U.S. DOE, DIII-D is a user facility open to researchers worldwide, with this international team of fusion experts guiding the research program to best use our resources to advance fusion energy efforts. Many in your community have worked at DIII-D — or may be interested in pursuing new collaborations. Sunday, November 16 (~10:00 am – 5:00 pm). Free tour and transportation from Long Beach Convention Center and lunch will be provided.
Date: Sunday, November 16, 2025
Time: ~10:00am – 5:00pm
Registration Here
Note: Non-US Citizens must register no later than Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Contact
contact@d3dfusion.org
UCLA Plasma Physics Facilities, Los Angeles, CA
Tour of the UCLA Plasma Physics Facilities
In conjunction with the APS DPP meeting in Long Beach we extend an invitation to tour the plasma effort at UCLA on Thursday evening, November 20. We will supply busses which will leave the convention center at 6:15-6:30. They will leave UCLA and return to Long Beach at 10 PM. You may also come by car and park in a structure adjacent to the building (parking costs $15.) There will be an assortment of food, beer, wine and soft drinks in a tent in front of the Science and Technology Research Building (STRB) on Campus. It's FREE but limited to about 200. Aside from the culinary fare you will get to tour:
The Large Plasma Device
The Phoenix Laser Lab
Stroll through a Tokamak
Low Temperature Plasma Laboratory
The undergraduate Plasma Physics lab
Megavolt InTense High-gradient Research Accelerator
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2025
Time: 5:00pm – 5:30pm (bus departure)
Registration Here
Contact Person
Meg Murphy mhmurphy@physics.ucla.edu