As the largest experimental facility of the Swiss Plasma Center,[1] the TCV tokamak explores the physics of magnetic confinement fusion.

The research carried out on TCV contributes to the physics understanding for ITER and future fusion power plants such as DEMO.

[3] TCV features a highly elongated, rectangular vacuum vessel and 16 independently powered coils which facilitate development of new plasma configurations.

It is particularly attractive because edge-localized modes (ELMs) can be avoided as an inherent ELM-free regime, while a core of high confinement is maintained.

This has motivated the DIII-D tokamak in San Diego to installed additional graphite-tile armor to perform dedicated experimental campaign in early 2023.