Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

News

Google DeepMind alumni are building tools to accelerate fusion power for the grid

Sep 9, 2026 • TechCrunch

PPPL develops framework for unifying tokamak ML control models

Sep 8, 2026 • ANS Nuclear Newswire

Publications

Integrating Gyrokinetic Flux Predictions with Ideal MHD Stability Boundaries

Oct 12, 2026 • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Characteristics of monotonic sheaths near a wall with grazing magnetic incidence

Oct 8, 2026 • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

On the timescales of controlled termination of tokamak plasmas

Oct 8, 2026 • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Projects

TCV

1992 - Present

TORPEX

Description

The TORPEX device is a basic plasma physics experiment that is essentially a tokamak where the toroidal current is carried by a copper wire in the plasma.

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)

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Website

News

Google DeepMind alumni are building tools to accelerate fusion power for the grid

PPPL develops framework for unifying tokamak ML control models

Publications

Integrating Gyrokinetic Flux Predictions with Ideal MHD Stability Boundaries

Characteristics of monotonic sheaths near a wall with grazing magnetic incidence

On the timescales of controlled termination of tokamak plasmas

Turbulent Origin of the Edge Radial Electric Field Asymmetry between Favourable and Unfavourable Drift Configurations

The FAST tool for synthetic SXR calculations and determination of impurity density and effective charge (Z eff )

Status of the 3 MW ECRH System at 105 GHz for WEST

Implicit-Explicit time integration scheme with Physics-based preconditioning for two-fluid tokamak boundary simulations

Impact of magnetic drift configuration on the edge radial electric field in the TCV tokamak

Comprehensive full-f drift-kinetic and delta-f gyrokinetic simulations of a linear plasma device based on the gyro-moment approach

Applications of a novel model-based real-time observer for electron density profile control experiments in TCV

Projects

TCV

TORPEX