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 300+ physicists, engineers and technicians of the Institute carry out research on Magnetic Fusion as a potential future energy source.

Agenda

Highlights

  • AI to monitor the walls of the Tokamak WEST

    AI to monitor the walls of the Tokamak WEST

    How can we speed up and improve the reliability of assessing the condition of the WEST tokamak walls after each plasma run? This is the challenge taken up by LLM4PPO, a generative multimodal AI model capable of automatically analyzing infrared images…

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Key figures

  • 300 people
  • 30 doctoral and post-doctoral students
  • 25 collaborators
  • almost 200 publications a year

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