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The CEA hosted the 36th meeting of the Broader Approach (BA) Steering Committee on 17–18 December 2025
The DRF (CEA) organized the 36th meeting of the BASC on 17–18 December 2025 in Cadarache and Aix-en-Provence, France.
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CEA/IRFM – DOE Collaboration Progress Meeting
The second annual Progress Meeting of the CEA/IRFM – DOE collaboration was held on December 5, 2025,…
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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…
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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…

Agenda
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34th SOFT Conference
From 21/09/2026 to 25/09/202608:00-17:00
Highlights
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CIRCE: a toolkit for the preliminary design of magnetic systems for tokamaks and stellarators
Magnetic confinement fusion uses superconducting magnets to develop intense magnetic fields in which the particles that fuse are trapped. Performance is closely linked to the strength of the magnetic field. Doubling the magnetic field at the center of the plasma would,…
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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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