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Start of WEST’s new experimental campaign: first plasmas and new experiments
On Wednesday, November 5, after validation of the final tests on the poloidal and divertor systems, the first plasma of WEST’s new campaign was successfully obtained. On November 7, the first experiment of the campaign was carried out in collaboration with ITER. It aimed to test the performance of a tungsten…
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New Gyrotron for WEST in place
On October 1, a new gyrotron, capable of delivering up to 1 MW of power at a…
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First Progress Meeting of the IRFM/SWIP collaboration in Chengdu
The first Progress Meeting of the bilateral IRFM/SWIP collaboration was successfully held on October 18 in Chengdu,…
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IRFM/ASIPP Progress Meeting: a year of enhanced collaboration ahead
The second annual Progress Meeting of the IRFM/ASIPP collaboration, chaired by Yuntao Song and Jérôme Bucalossi, was…
Agenda
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34th SOFT Conference
From 21/09/2026 to 25/09/202608:00-17:00
Highlights
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Controlling tritium inventory in ITER plasma-facing components
In ITER, isotopic exchange is considered a potential method for recovering tritium that becomes trapped in components facing the plasma during deuterium-tritium plasmas. This involves creating plasmas fed solely by deuterium to replace the tritium trapped in the walls with deuterium…
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An innovative design for plasma-facing divertor components
The plasma-facing components of the divertor in a magnetic confinement fusion device such as WEST, and later ITER, consist of tungsten elements assembled onto a copper alloy cooled by water circulation. These centimeter-sized, parallelepiped-shaped elements line the bottom of the vacuum…
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