News
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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 frequency of 105 GHz, was delivered and installed on WEST’s ECRH heating platform. The gyrotron has not been qualified yet on a test stand. The qualification will be carried out entirely on the CEA…
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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…
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Laser technology for cleaning facing plasma components
A high-precision laser cleaning solution has been deployed to maintain the operational condition of components exposed to…
Agenda
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34th SOFT Conference
From 21/09/2026 to 25/09/202608:00-17:00
Highlights
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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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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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- 25 collaborators
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Doctoral students
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