Warming up! 30 years of fusion research at EPFL

EPFL's TCV from the inside - 2023 EPFL/ Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

EPFL's TCV from the inside - 2023 EPFL/ Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

The School opened the Plasma Physics Laboratory – today the Swiss Plasma Center – in 1961 and started up a variable-configuration tokamak (TCV) reactor in 1992. Today, EPFL is a leading research institute in nuclear fusion. Read our longread!

Read "Warming up! 30 years of fusion research at EPFL", our long-form article produced to mark the 30th anniversary of the TCV.


Author: Emmanuel Barraud

Source: EPFL

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