Eastern Europe

First Fusion For Travelling Reactor
28 January 2009

WORLD NUCLEAR NEWS (LONDON)--Physicists at the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAV) announced a successful discharge of plasma from their Compass D reactor. The presence of plasma indicated a controlled discharge of thermonuclear power that occurred on 09 DEC 08 after CAV's scientists conducted six months of upgrades and diagnostic tests on the reactor. CAV purchased the reactor, valued at USD 32 million, from the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority's Culham Research Centre for USD 1.45 to replace CAV's outdated, Russian-designed tokamak Acquisition and successful operation of the Compass D reactor establishes CAV's Institute of Plasma Physics as the only entity in Eastern Europe with an operational tokamak. The reactor enables the Czech Republic to expand nuclear fusion research relevant to the Iter project. Source:
http://http//www.world-nuclear-news.org/newsarticle.aspx?id=24546
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