The first high-speed colour video from the COMPASS tokamak (YouTube)
Front photograph of the COMPASS tokamak in Prague
COMPASS, short for Compact Assembly, is a compact tokamak fusion energy device originally completed at the Culham Science Centre in 1989, upgraded in 1992, and operated until 2002. It was designed as a flexible research facility dedicated mostly to plasma physics studies in circular and D-shaped plasmas.
When it was decommissioned at Culham, it was offered to the European Commission and found a new home at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague where it began operations once again in 2006.[1][2][3][4] It officially ended its experimental runs on 20 August 2021 and was disassembled to leave room for a new device, COMPASS-U.[5]
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COMPASS, short for Compact Assembly, is a compact tokamak fusion energy device originally completed at the Culham Science Centre in 1989, upgraded in...
A tokamak (/ˈtoʊkəmæk/; Russian: токамáк) is a device which uses a powerful magnetic field generated by external magnets to confine plasma in the shape...
Detachment tomographic inversion study with fast visible cameras on the COMPASStokamak (Bachelor's thesis). Czech Technical University in Prague. hdl:10467/111617...
ELMs for very narrow ranges of the plasma current. Plasma instability COMPASStokamak NSTX-U, also uses RMPs to control ELMs T.E. Evans; et al. (2004). "Suppression...
Retrieved 2018-09-04. "Tokamak Department, Institute of Plasma Physics". 2014-05-12. Archived from the original on 2014-05-12. "COMPASS – General information"...
Its stated goal is to build a small fusion power plant based on the ARC tokamak design. It has participated in the United States Department of Energy’s...
divertor or diverted configuration is a magnetic field configuration of a tokamak or a stellarator which separates the confined plasma from the material...
The beta limit, for example, sets the maximum achievable plasma beta in tokamaks. On the other hand, small-scale plasma instabilities (typically described...
Atomic Energy Commission shut the program down in 1977 to focus on the tokamak and magnetic mirror. Some of the lack of interest in theta since the 1970s...
used as a nuclear fusion fuel, along with more abundant deuterium, in tokamak reactors and in hydrogen bombs. Tritium was first detected in 1934 by Ernest...
ISBN 978-1-908977-43-4. Furth, Harold (30 April 1981). "Father of the tokamak". New Scientist. Vol. 90, no. 1251. pp. 274–276. Braams, C. M.; Stott,...
measurements in space plasma Fran Bošnjaković Jana Brotankova COMPASS CASTOR tokamak,GOLEM tokamak Franklin Chang-Diaz created the Variable Specific Impulse...
the 1950s and 60s, with a strong physical resemblance to the z-pinch and tokamak devices. The major difference was that it used radio waves to heat the...
development, the other being magnetic confinement fusion (MCF), notably the tokamak concept which is being built in a major experimental system known as ITER...
Exhibition. 1950: The Toroidal chamber with axial magnetic fields (the Tokamak) is developed by Igor E. Tamm and Andrei D. Sakharov. 1952: The float glass...
explosively pumped flux compression generator, co-developed the Tsar Bomba and tokamak Jonas Edward Salk (1914–1995), U.S. – injection Polio vaccine Robert Salmon...
his development of multi-current or doublet approach to the design of tokamaks with non-circular cross sections and for investigation of plasma confinement...
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