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New X-ray imaging for ITER-supporting tokamaks
As researchers continue to seek ways to better understand the plasma inside fusion machines to fully harness fusion energy, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is leading a project to provide new X-ray imaging systems to two international tokamak projects: WEST, in southern France, and JT-60SA, in Japan—both of which are designed to support the development of ITER.
P. Bayetti, S. Chel, F. Robin, R. Gonde, O. Baulaigue, Ph. Brédy, J. David, P. Decool, L. Genini, R. Gobin, J.-F. Gournay, J. Marroncle, F. Michel, P. Nghiem, J. Noe, F. Orsini, J. C. Vallet
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 64 | Number 4 | November 2013 | Pages 719-726
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A24091
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France is participating as one of the European voluntary contributors to the joint Europe-Japan so-called Broader Approach (BA) activities in support of ITER and DEMO activities, consisting of three projects: the engineering design and validation of a 14-MeV-neutron irradiation facility (IFMIF-EVEDA), the building of the International Fusion Energy Research Centre (IFERC), and the ITER Satellite Tokamak Programme (STP-JT-60SA). This paper gives an overview of the French contributions to the BA projects and reports on the present status of these projects since 2007.
