Design and development of the actively cooled ion cyclotron travelling wave array system for WEST

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Issue		EPJ Web Conf. Volume 346, 2026 25^th Topical Conference on Radio-Frequency Power in Plasmas (RFPPC2025)


Article Number		03003
Number of page(s)		5
Section		Radio-Frequency and Microwave Diagnostics and Technology
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202634603003
Published online		07 January 2026

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