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EUROfusion Device: WEST

WEST vacuum vessel

The interior of a tokamak fusion reactor, showing a metallic vacuum chamber lined with heat-resistant tiles.

Inside the vacuum vessel of WEST (Cadarache, France) with its tungsten ITER-like divertor; credit: CEA / C. Roux

WEST tokamak

An intricate assembly of pipes, machinery, and platforms in a laboratory environment, with a technician in a white suit working in the center.

WEST tokamak in Cadarache, France; credit: CEA / C. Roux