News
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Participation in the WEST Experiments of our Chinese ASIPP collaborators
From 24 March to 4 April 2025, a delegation of 12 employees from ASIPP (Hefei, China) took an active part in the experimental sessions at the WEST tokamak.
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Fusion Master Students at the CEA’s IRFM
From 17 to 28 February, 22 students from the Masters in Fusion Sciences in Marseille, Nancy and…
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JT-60SA International Fusion School students immersed at the IRFM
On 12 March, the IRFM was pleased to welcome Japanese students as part of the European tour…
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WEST sets a new plasma duration record
On February 12, scientists from CEA-IRFM sustained a hydrogen plasma in the WEST Tokamak for 1337 seconds,…
Agenda
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4th edition of the Fusion pour Tous
From 16/06/2025 to 20/06/202508:00-17:00 -
Festival de Théorie
From 30/06/2025 to 25/07/202508:00-17:00 -
21th Edition of the European Fusion Theory Conference (EFTC)
From 23/09/2025 to 26/09/202508:00-17:00 -
34th SOFT Conference
From 21/09/2026 to 25/09/202608:00-17:00
Highlights
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A low-activation plasma component for future fusion power plants
For the first time, an actively cooled model, with solid tungsten facing the plasma and Eurofer97 as a low-activation structural material, withstood heat fluxes of the order of 3 MW/m². The manufacture and testing of this model is the result of…
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Major contribution to ITER magnetic measurements
The scientific and technical operation of tokamaks relies on a range of measurement or diagnostic systems. Among these, magnetic diagnostics occupy a special place, as they measure the plasma current and calculate its shape and position – essential data for plasma…
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Key figures
- 300 people
- 30 doctoral and post-doctoral students
- 25 collaborators
- almost 200 publications a year
300
People
30
Doctoral students
25
Collaborators
190+
Publications