The negotiations for site selection of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project are in the final stages. The participants in the ITER project in addition to EU are Japan, USA, Russia, South Korea and China. The European negotiators have a mandate to propose the Cadarache site in France and to solicite the support of as many of the other participating countries as possible. The objective of ITER is to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion power by achieving extended burn of Deuterium-Tritium plasma. ITER will produce about 500 MW of fusion power with burn flat-tops of greater than 400 seconds. Can ITER be smaller? Smaller devices are attractive from the cost point of view but have more stringent requirements on operation. There are several key physics questions that must be answered for development of more compact reactors. The work carried out at the Alfvén Lab addresses one such area, active control of magnetohydrodynamic instabilities.