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Swiss physician Yves Martin, deputy director of the Swiss Plasma Center looking at the nuclear test reactor TCV Tokamak during a press visit for the 30th anniversary at the fusion research laboratories Swiss Plasma Center of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL, Thursday, September 21, 2023. The Swiss Plasma Center is part of the EUROfusion Consortium, it is one of the key European facilities for the ITER project, which aims to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion as an energy source, and the development of DEMO, whose objective is to prove its commercial feasibility. The TCV Tokamak represents a major asset in the global effort to develop fusion and integrate Switzerland into the European research area.(KEYSTONE/Laurent Gillieron)