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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, on the sidelines of the IAEA-FEC, International Conference on Fusion Energy. The meeting brought together around 30 participants, including 11 experts from IRFM. It began with a visit to the new Yongxing campus, which…
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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…
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World first: a drone inspects the vacuum vessel of the Tokamak WEST
On Wednesday, July 23, WEST hosted a unique experiment: for the first time ever, a drone successfully…
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Official launch of the joint WEST / KSTAR experimental program
On June 11, 2025, the joint WEST / KSTAR experimental program on long shocks in a tungsten…
Agenda
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34th SOFT Conference
From 21/09/2026 to 25/09/202608:00-17:00
Highlights
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A transdisciplinary European consortium tackling the challenges of tritium for tomorrow’s energy
Controlling the tritium cycle is one of the major scientific challenges for future fusion power plants and a key issue for certain fourth-generation fission reactor designs. The recently completed European TITANS project, coordinated by CEA-IRFM, has brought together a consortium of…
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Additive manufacturing origami structures for an innovative neutron detector
Measuring neutrons produced by nuclear reactions, whether fission or fusion, is a major challenge for performance evaluation and safety. A team involving the four operational divisions of the CEA has developed an innovative neutron detector by encapsulating a SiC diode in…
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