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    IRFM welcomes around 30 PhD students and 40 trainees per year.
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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 is an institute of CEA, the French Alternatives Energies and Atomic Energy Commission. Located in the CEA Cadarache Centre, with ITER next door, the 200+ physicists, engineers and technicians of the Institute carry out research on Magnetic Fusion as a potential future energy source.

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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

EUROfusion contributions to ITER nuclear operation

X. Litaudon, U. Fantz, R. Villari, V. Toigo, M.-H. Aumeunier, Jean-Luc Autran, P. Batistoni, E. Belonohy, S. Bradnam, M. Cecchetto, A. Colangeli, F. Dacquait, S. Dal Bello, M. Dentan, M. de Pietri, J. Eriksson, M. Fabbri, G. Falchetto, L. Figini, J. Figueiredo, D. Flammini, N. Fonnesu, L. Frassinetti, J. Galdón-Quiroga, R. Garcia-Alia, M. Garcia-Munoz, Z. Ghani, J. Gonzalez-Martin, E. Grelier, L. Di Grazia, B. Grove, C.L. Grove, A. Gusarov, B. Heinemann, A. Hjalmarsson, O. Hyvärinen, V. Ioannou-Sougleridis, L. Jones, H.-T. Kim, M. Kłosowski, M. Kocan, B. Kos, L. Kos, D. Kotnik, E. Laszynska, D. Leichtle, I. Lengar, E. Leon-Gutierrez, A.J. López-Revelles, S. Loreti, M. Loughlin, D. Marcuzzi, K.G. Mcclements, G. Mariano, M. Mattei, K. Mergia, J. Mietelski, R. Mitteau, S. Moindjie, D. Munteanu, R. Naish, S. Noce, L.W. Packer, S. Pamela, R. Pampin, A. Pau, A. Peacock, E. Peluso, Y. Peneliau, J. Peric, V. Radulović, D. Ricci, F. Rimini, L. Sanchis-Sanchez, P. Sauvan, M.I. Savva, G. Serianni, C.R. Shand, A. Snicker, L. Snoj, I.E. Stamatelatos, Ž. Štancar, N. Terranova, T. Vasilopoulou, R. Vila, J. Waterhouse, C. Wimmer, D. Wünderlich, A. Žohar, Nbtf Team, Jet Contributors, Eurofusion Tokamak Exploitation Team

2024-09-04

Nuclear Fusion, 2024, 64 (11), pp.112006. ⟨10.1088/1741-4326/ad346e⟩

Physics conditions for robust control of tearing modes in a rotating tokamak plasma

E Lazzaro, D. Borgogno, D Brunetti, L Comisso, O Fevrier, D. Grasso, H. Lütjens, P. Maget, S. Nowak, O. Sauter, C. Sozzi

2024-09-04

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2018, 60 (1), pp.014044. ⟨10.1088/1361-6587/aa8be7⟩

Semi-analytical modelling of prompt redeposition in a steady-state plasma

L Cappelli, N Fedorczak, E Serre

2024-09-03

Nuclear Fusion, 2024, 64 (10), pp.106028. ⟨10.1088/1741-4326/ad6c5e⟩

Observation of quasi coherent modes in W7-X and relation to tokamaks

A Krämer-Flecken, H Xiang, K Rahbarnia, S Heuraux, R Sabot, L Salazar, P Costello, G Fuchert, J Geiger, A Knieps, J Proll, H Thomsen, G Weir, T Windisch

2024-08-29

27th Joint EU-US Transport Task Force Meeting, Sep 2023, Nancy, France

A disorder of consciousness rather than complete locked-in may be the final stage of ALS

F. Gobert, I. Merida, E. Maby, Perrine Séguin, J. Jung, D. Morlet, N. André-Obadia, F. Dailler, Ch. Berthomier, A. Otman, D. Le Bars, Ch. Scheiber, A. Hammers, E. Bernard, N. Costes, R. Bouet, J. Mattout

2024-08-28

2024

High Z neoclassical transport: Application and limitation of analytical formulae for modelling JET experimental parameters

S. Breton, F. Casson, C. Bourdelle, C. Angioni, E. Belli, Yann Camenen, J. Citrin, X. Garbet, Y. Sarazin, M. Sertoli

2024-08-27

Physics of Plasmas, 2018, 25 (1), pp.012303. ⟨10.1063/1.5019275⟩

Electron collection and thermionic emission from a spherical dust grain in the space-charge limited regime

A. Autricque, S. Khrapak, L. Couedel, N. Fedorczak, Cécile Arnas, J.-M. Layet, C. Grisolia

2024-08-27

Physics of Plasmas, 2018, 25 (6), pp.063701. ⟨10.1063/1.5032153⟩

Nonlinear dynamics of turbulence driven magnetic islands. I. Theoretical aspects

O. Agullo, M. Muraglia, S. Benkadda, A. Poye, N. Dubuit, X. Garbet, A. Sen

2024-08-27

Physics of Plasmas, 2017, 24 (4), ⟨10.1063/1.4981229⟩

Linking Edge Flows to the Magnetic Geometry Asymmetry in Tokamaks

S Rienäcker, L Vermare, P Hennequin, C Honoré, S Coda, B Labit, L Frassinetti, B Vincent, M Agostini, M Matina, M Ugoletti, A Balestri, P Manas, O Panico

2024-08-26

5Oth EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Jul 2024, Salamanca, Spain. pp.P3-047, ⟨10.1088/1741⟩

Transition to super-diffusive transport in turbulent plasmas

Matteo Stanzani, Filippo Arlotti, Guido Ciraolo, Xavier Garbet, Cristel Chandre

Physical Review E , 2023, 110 (2), pp.025204. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.110.025204⟩