Magnum-PSI is a set up in which materials are exposed to hot plasma, mimicking circumstances in future nuclear fusion reactors. In the new building, this machine will be connected to an ion accelerator that’s located on campus already, at TU/e spin-off AccTec in Cyclotron. The ion accelerator is scheduled to move – several hundreds of meters that is – on March 18. The combined experiment will be used for all kinds of material research in the years to come.
 
Machines from the precision mechanical workshop will also be transported from DIFFER to Eindhoven. The high point of the DIFFER  interior will come this summer: a giant super-conducting magnet for Magnum-PSI weighing in at several tons. The magnet enables researchers to create a continuous plasma beam – the previous set up at the Rijnhuizen Estate featured 'traditional' electromagnets, which only allowed for a thirty-second beam at the most. In the fall, a final, smaller experiment will make its way from Nieuwegein to the new location as well: the Pilot-PSI.