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    IRFM welcomes around 30 PhD students and 40 trainees per year.
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    WEST Tokamak

    W (tungsten) Environment in Steady-state Tokamak
    WEST validates and fatigue-tests the ITER actively-cooled tungsten divertor components
    during the ITER construction phase and prepare their safe operation.

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    IRFM activities
    Participating in the realization of ITER and European Fusion program
    Preparing the operation of next generation devices
    Fusion physics understanding by theory and experiments
    Fusion Reactor Studies
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Institute for Magnetic Fusion Research

IRFM is an institute of CEA, the French Alternatives Energies and Atomic Energy Commission. Located in the CEA Cadarache Centre, with ITER next door, the 200+ physicists, engineers and technicians of the Institute carry out research on Magnetic Fusion as a potential future energy source.

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IRFM Activities

Project Iter

Contribute to the implementation of the ITER project and those of the “Broader Approach”

Experiment, control, theory and modelling

Prepare the scientific operation of ITER, through control and experimentation activities, and through theory and modeling,

Future fusion reactor

Establish the basis for future fusion reactor.

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300

Employees

25

Collaborators

27

Ph-D

190 +

Publications/year

Latest publications

LIBS analysis of tritium in thin film-type samples

Aurélien Favre, Arnaud Bultel, Mickael Payet, Stéphane Vartanian, Sébastien Garcia-Argote, Vincent Morel, Elodie Bernard, Sabina Markelj, Miha Čekada, Etienne Hodille, Alexandre Semerok, Christian Grisolia

2024-11-08

Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2024, 591, pp.154924. ⟨10.1016/j.jnucmat.2024.154924⟩

Qualification and post-mortem investigation of actively cooled tungsten flat-tile mock-ups for WEST divertor

Marc Missirlian, G. Pintsuk, G.-N. Luo, Q. Li, W. Wang, A. Durif, T. Batal, M. Richou, J. Bucalossi

2024-11-07

Fusion Engineering and Design, 2018, 136, pp.403-409. ⟨10.1016/j.fusengdes.2018.02.063⟩

Developments and Challenges in the Design of the ITER DRGA

C. Christopher Klepper, Ephrem Delabie, Ionut Jepu, P. Andrew, Theodore Biewer, G. Ted Boyd, David Douai, Shaun Hughes, Uron Kruezi, Chris Marcus, G Neilson, David Rasmussen, Fabio Ravelli, Stephane Vartanian

2024-11-07

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 2022, 50 (12), pp.4970 - 4979. ⟨10.1109/tps.2022.3223648⟩

Acceptance tests of the industrial series manufacturing of WEST ITER-like tungsten actively cooled divertor

Marianne Richou, Marc Missirlian, Mehdi Firdaouss, Bernd Böswirth, Mathilde Diez, Henri Greuner, Jean-Claude Hatchressian, Nadia Pérot, Manda Ramaniraka, Hélène Roche

2024-11-05

Physica Scripta, 2021, 96 (12), pp.124029. ⟨10.1088/1402-4896/ac2657⟩

Integrated design strategy for EU-DEMO first wall protection from plasma transients Fusion Engineering and Design 177 (2022) 113067

Francesco Maviglia, Christian Bachmann, Gianfranco Federici, Thomas Franke, Mattia Siccinio, Raffaele Albanese, Roberto Ambrosino, Wayne Arter, Roberto Bonifetto, Giuseppe Calabrò, Riccardo de Luca, Luigi Di Grazia, Emiliano Fable, Pierluigi Fanelli, Alessandra Fanni, Mehdi Firdaouss, Jonathan Gerardin, Riccardo Lombroni, Massimiliano Mattei, Matteo Moscheni, William Morris, Gabriella Pautasso, Sergey Pestchanyi, Giuseppe Ramogida, Maria Lorena Richiusa, Giuliana Sias, Fabio Subba, Fabio Villone, Jeong-Ha You, Zsolt Vizvary

2024-11-05

Fusion Engineering and Design, 2022, 178, pp.113125. ⟨10.1016/j.fusengdes.2022.113125⟩

Integrated design strategy for EU-DEMO first wall protection from plasma transients

Francesco Maviglia, Christian Bachmann, Gianfranco Federici, Thomas Franke, Mattia Siccinio, Raffaele Albanese, Roberto Ambrosino, Wayne Arter, Roberto Bonifetto, Giuseppe Calabrò, Riccardo de Luca, Luigi Grazia, Emiliano Fable, Pierluigi Fanelli, Alessandra Fanni, Mehdi Firdaouss, Jonathan Gerardin, Riccardo Lombroni, Massimiliano Mattei, Matteo Moscheni, William Morris, Gabriella Pautasso, Sergey Pestchanyi, Giuseppe Ramogida, Maria Lorena Richiusa, Giuliana Sias, Fabio Subba, Fabio Villone, Jeong-Ha You, Zsolt Vizvary

2024-11-05

Fusion Engineering and Design, 2022, 177, pp.113067. ⟨10.1016/j.fusengdes.2022.113067⟩

Post-mortem analysis of the deposit layers on the lower divertor after the 2023 high particle fluence campaign of WEST

C. Martin, M. Diez, E. Bernard, M. Cabié, A. Campos, C. Pardanaud, G. Giacometti, A. Gallo, J. Gaspar, Y. Corre

2024-11-05

Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2024, 41, pp.101764. ⟨10.1016/j.nme.2024.101764⟩

Thermal and statistical analysis of the high-Z tungsten-based UFOs observed during the first deuterium high fluence campaign of the WEST tokamak

J. Gaspar, Y. Anquetin, Y. Corre, X. Courtois, M. Diez, A. Ekedahl, N. Fedorczak, A. Gallo, J-L. Gardarein, J. Gerardin, J. Gunn, A. Grosjean, K. Krieger, T. Loarer, P. Manas, C. Martin, P. Maget, R. Mitteau, P. Moreau, F. Rigollet, E. Tsitrone

2024-11-05

Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2024, 41, pp.101745. ⟨10.1016/j.nme.2024.101745⟩

High-heat-flux performance limit of tungsten monoblock targets: Impact on the armor materials and implications for power exhaust capacity

Jeong-Ha You, Henri Greuner, Bernd Böswirth, Katja Hunger, Selanna Roccella, Helen Roche

2024-11-05

Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2022, 33, pp.101307. ⟨10.1016/j.nme.2022.101307⟩

Analysis of lattice locations of deuterium in tungsten and its application for predicting deuterium trapping conditions

Xin Jin, Flyura Djurabekova, Etienne Hodille, Sabina Markelj, Kai Nordlund

2024-11-05

Physical Review Materials, 2024, 8 (4), pp.043604. ⟨10.1103/physrevmaterials.8.043604⟩