 COMPASS tokamak vacuum chamber | |
| Device type | Tokamak |
|---|---|
| Location | Prague, Czech Republic |
| Affiliation | Czech Academy of Sciences |
| Technical specifications | |
| Major radius | 0.56 m (1 ft 10 in) |
| Minor radius | 0.23 m (9.1 in) |
| Magnetic field | 0.9–2.1 T (9,000–21,000 G) |
| Heating power | 2 × 0.3 MW |
| Discharge duration | 0.5 s (pulsed) |
| Plasma current | 360 kA |
| History | |
| Year(s) of operation | 1992–2002 (in UK) 2006–2021 (in CZ) |
| Links | |
| Website | COMPASS Tokamak |
| Other links | |
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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