The WEST tokamak has just installed an actively cooled tungsten divertor as its main plasma-facing component, based on technology similar to that of ITER. This very important milestone was reached thanks to a collective and collaborative effort. It paves the way for WEST operation over long periods (up to 1000s) with high levels of heat flux (> 10 megawatts per square meter). This allows WEST to test these components against ITER-type plasma in a tokamak environment.
After producing its first plasmas at the end of 2016, the French superconducting tokamak WEST has just crossed the milestone of 10,000 plasma pulses at
Research in extreme areas such as nuclear fusion often leads to unexpected discoveries with broad application potential. In this edition of our EUROfusion Engage Newsletter,
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