Documentation

Overview Articles 

WEST full tungsten operation with an ITER grade divertorNuclear Fusion 64, 112022 (2024) – J. Bucalossi, A. Ekedahl et al.

Manufacturing, testing and installation of the full tungsten actively cooled ITER-like divertor in the WEST tokamakFusion Engineering and Design 193, 113683 (2023) – M. Missirlian, M. Firdaouss, M. Richou, C. Hernandez, L. Gargiulo et al.

Operating a full tungsten actively cooled tokamak: overview of WEST first phase of operation – Nuclear Fusion 62, 042007 (2022) – J. Bucalossi et al.

WEST Physics Basis – Nuclear Fusion 55, 063017 (2015) – C. Bourdelle, J.F. Artaud et al.

The WEST project: Testing ITER divertor high heat flux component technology in a steady state tokamak environment – Fusion Engineering and Design 89, 907–912 (2014) –  J. Bucalossi, M. Missirlian, P. Moreau et al.

The WEST project: Current status of the ITER-like tungsten divertor” – Fusion Engineering and Design 89, 1048-1053 (2014) – Marc Missirlian, Jérôme Bucalossi, Yann Corre, et al.

“The WEST programme : Minimizing technology and operatioanl risks of a full actively cooled tungsten divertor on ITER” – Fusion Engineering and Design 88, 497–500 (2013) – André Grosman, Jérôme Bucalossi, Louis Doceul, Frédéric Escourbiac, Manfred Lipa, Mario Merola, Marc Missirlian, Richard A. Pitts, Franck Samaille, Emmanuelle Tsitrone.

“Feasibility study of an actively cooled tungsten divertor in Tore Supra for ITER technology testing”– Fusion Engineering and Design 86, 684 – 688 (2011) – J. Bucalossi, A. Argouarch, V. Basiuk, O. Baulaigue, P. Bayetti, M. Bécoulet, B. Bertrand, S. Brémond, P. Cara, M. Chantant, Y. Corre, X. Courtois, L. Doceul, A. Ekedahl, F. Faisse, M. Firdaouss, J. Garcia, L. Gargiulo, C. Gil, C. Grisolia, et al.

Press Review (in French)

“Fusion thermonucléaire : Le projet WEST au CEA de Cadarache, banc d’essai pour ITER” 

A complete press review on the WEST project realised in September 2013 by the CEA.

Dossier de Presse 2013.pdf

Another more recent press review: “WEST : à la conquête de la fusion nucléaire”

Dossier de presse 2017.pdf