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    WEST Tokamak

    W (tungsten) Environment in Steady-state Tokamak
    WEST validates and fatigue-tests the ITER actively-cooled tungsten divertor components
    during the ITER construction phase and prepare their safe operation.

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    IRFM activities
    Participating in the realization of ITER and European Fusion program
    Preparing the operation of next generation devices
    Fusion physics understanding by theory and experiments
    Fusion Reactor Studies
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Institute for Magnetic Fusion Research

IRFM belongs CEA, the French Alternatives Energies and Atomic Energy Commission. Located in the CEA Cadarache Center, ITER next door, the 300 employees of the Institute are carrying out research on Magnetic Fusion as a potential future energy source.

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WEST tokamak controlled from Japan

2018-12-04
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The “Fusion” Tritium measurement method applied into Glove Box

2018-08-30
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A new tangential wide-angle infrared thermography for WEST

2018-06-22
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IRFM Activities

Project Iter

Contribute to the implementation of the ITER project and those of the “Broader Approach”

Experiment, control, theory and modelling

Prepare the scientific operation of ITER, through control and experimentation activities, and through theory and modeling,

Future fusion reactor

Establish the basis for future fusion reactor.

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300

Employees

25

Collaborators

27

Ph-D

190 +

Publications/year

Latest publications

Development of a compact bushing for NBI

H. De Esch, A. Simonin, C. Grand, Bruno Lepetit, Didier Lemoine, Maykel Márquez-Mijares, T. Minea, L. Caillault, B. Seznec, T. Jager, E. Odic, Michael J Kirkpatrick, Ph. Teste, Philippe Dessante, K. Almaksour

2019-03-18

FIFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON NEGATIVE IONS, BEAMS AND SOURCES (NIBS 2016), Sep 2016, Oxford, United Kingdom. 1869 (1), pp.060003, 2017, 〈10.1063/1.4995790〉

Inaugural tumor-like multiple sclerosis: clinical presentation and medium-term outcome in 87 patients

G. Balloy, J. Pelletier, L. Suchet, C. Lebrun, M. Cohen, P. Vermersch, H. Zephir, E. Duhin, O. Gout, R. Deschamps, E. Le Page, G. Edan, P. Labauge, C. Carra-Dallieres, L. Rumbach, E. Berger, P. Lejeune, P. Devos, J. N’Kendjuo, M. Coustans, E. Auffray-Calvier, B. Daumas-Duport, L. Michel, F. Lefrere, D. Laplaud, C. Brosset, P. Derkinderen, J. De Seze, S. Wiertlewski

2019-03-13

Journal of Neurology, Springer Verlag, 2018, 265 (10), pp.2251-2259. 〈10.1007/s00415-018-8984-7〉

Tailoring steep density profile with unstable points

Shun Ogawa, Xavier Leoncini, Alexei Vasiliev, Xavier Garbet

2019-03-12

Physics Letters A, Elsevier, 2019, 383 (1), pp.35-39. 〈10.1016/j.physleta.2018.09.014〉

Corrigendum : Extended Magneto-Hydro-Dynamic model for Neoclassical Tearing Mode Computations

Patrick Maget, Olivier Février, Xavier Garbet, Hinrich Lütjens, Jean-François LUCIANI, Alain Marx

2019-03-10

2019

Mechanical and Materials Development of Radio-Frequency Contact for the ITER Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating Antenna

Zhaoxi Chen

2019-03-01

Electromagnetism. l'Université Toulouse 3 - Paul Sabatier, 2018. English

First heat flux estimation in the lower divertor of WEST with embedded thermal measurements

J. Gaspar, Y. Corre, M. Firdaouss, J. Gardarein, J. Gerardin, J. Gunn, M. Houry, G. Laffont, T. Loarer, M. Missirlian, J. Morales, P. Moreau, C. Pocheau, E. Tsitrone, WEST Team

2019-02-28

Fusion Engineering and Design, Elsevier, 2019

Renewal of the interfero-polarimeter diagnostic for WEST

C. Gil, G. Colledani, M. Domenes, D. Volpe, A. Berne, F. Faisse, C. Guillon, J. Morales, P. Moreau, B. Santraine

2019-02-22

Fusion Engineering and Design, Elsevier, 2019, 140, pp.81-91. 〈10.1016/j.fusengdes.2019.02.003〉

Picosecond LIBS diagnostics for Tokamak in situ plasma facing materials chemical analysis

Vincent Morel, Bastien Peres, Arnaud Bultel, Ammar Hideur, Christian Grisolia

2019-02-18

Physica Scripta, IOP Publishing, 2016, T167, pp.014016

DEMO design using the SYCOMORE system code: Influence of technological constraints on the reactor performances

C. Reux, S. Kahn, L. Zani, B. Pégourié, N. Piot, M. Owsiak, G. Aiello, J.-F. Artaud, A. Boutry, S. Dardour, L. Di Gallo, L. Duchateau, Davide Galassi, F. Imbeaux, C. Jaboulay, P. Magaud, J. Said, B. Saoutic, P. Sardain

2019-02-12

Fusion Engineering and Design, Elsevier, 2018, 136, pp.1572-1576

An improved model for the accurate calculation of parallel heat fluxes at the JET bulk tungsten outer divertor

D. Iglesias, P. Bunting, J. W. Coenen, G. F. Matthews, R. A. Pitts, S. Silburn, I. Balboa, I. Coffey, Y. Corre, R. Dejarnac, J. Gaspar, E. Gauthier, S. Jachmich, K. Krieger, S. Pamela, V. Riccardo, M. Stamp

2019-02-22

Nuclear Fusion, IOP Publishing, 2018, 58 (10), pp.106034. 〈10.1088/1741-4326/aad83e〉