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École Polytechnique

🇫🇷 Palaiseau, FR · Active

Also known as ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE

École polytechnique is a French engineering school in Palaiseau, near Paris, founded in 1794 and still supervised by the French defence ministry. It appears here because the IAEA World Survey of Fusion Devices (2022) lists it as operator of ToriX, a small magnetic-confinement device used for training and education in fusion research and plasma physics.

Sector
Fusion
Role
University, Operator

It is the operator of record for TORIX (operating).

Design values

Design values for devices operated by École Polytechnique. These are what a machine was built to do, not results.
DeviceParameterValueUnitStatus
TORIXMajor radius0.6mdesign valueclaimed
TORIXMinor radius0.05mdesign valueclaimed
TORIXPlasma duration (nominal)0.1sdesign valueclaimed

Devices

TORIXMCFOperating3 figures on record

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