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This response reflects upon the issues brought up by the Discussion Paper with regard to the loss of RRI funding in Horizon Europe, and what that might mean for early career scholars in our community and our field. As a knowledge project aimed at institutional change, one could argue that RRI is still incomplete and we must now anticipate a threat to that completion. However, that should not stop us from also anticipating the possibilities of an R(R)I whose future is ours as a community to determine.

Tore-Supra is a Tokamak (Ip=1.5MA, Bt=4T) aiming at doing researches in the field of controlled nuclear fusion. It has been constructed with a steady-state magnetic field using super-conducting magnets and water-cooled plasma facing components for high performances long pulse plasma discharges. When not actively cooled, plasma-facing components can only accumulate a limited amount of energy since the temperature increase continuously (T˜sqrt(time)) during the discharge until radiation cooling is equal to the incoming heat flux (T>1800K). Such an environment is found in the most today Tokamaks. In the present paper we report the recent results of Tore-Supra, especially the design of the new generation of infrared endoscopes to measure the surface temperature of the plasma facing components. The Tore-Supra system is described in details, the new JET infrared thermography system is presented and some insight of the ITER set of visible/infrared endoscope is given.