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1977 |
CASTOR tokamak put in operation (taken over from Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, Russia) |
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1985 |
CASTOR tokamak upgrade – new vacuum vessel and positional feedback system |
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1999 |
Czech Republic associated to EURATOM – Institute of Plasma Physics AS CR became a coordinator of Association EURATOM-IPP.CR |
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2004 |
COMPASS-D officially offered by UKAEA to IPP Prague. |
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November 2005 |
Decision to take over COMPASS-D tokamak, governmental support provided |
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June 2006 |
Start of the COMPASS Project - CCE-FU EURATOM granted the Preferential support |
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July-December 2006 |
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December 2006 |
CASTOR tokamak mothballed and moved to Czech Technical University |
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December 9, 2008 |
1st plasma generated in COMPASS (gallery) |
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February 19, 2009 |
Official start of tokamak test operation (gallery) |
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2009 - 2011 |
Final commissioning of the diagnostics, control systems, power supplies |
| 2012 | Scientific exploitation (operational phase) |
| November 2012 | H-mode scenario achieved |
| 2013 | Edge Localized Modes Type-I achieved |
| 2017, December 1 |
Start of the COMPASS-U project
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| 2021, August 20 |
Last experimental discharge on COMPASS tokamak
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