29th Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT 2016)

Session

I5.2 E. Tsitrone

Sep 9, 2016, 9:10 AM

Prague Congress Centre

49484. I5.2 WEST Project status and Research plan towards ITER risk mitigation

E. Tsitrone (CEA)

9/9/16, 9:10 AM

Oral

The WEST project is targeted at minimizing risks for ITER divertor procurement and operation. It consists in implementing an actively cooled tungsten divertor for testing the ITER divertor technology under tokamak conditions in Tore Supra. The present paper gives an overview of the project status, and describes the main lines of the associated research plan. As far as the project is concerned,...