COMPASS-U: Tokamak for cutting-edge fusion research
Project goals
The project aims at closing some of the key gaps of knowledge identified by the EUROfusion consortium for the construction of the first thermonuclear fusion tokamak reactor producing net electric power – DEMO. The primary goal of the project is the construction of the COMPASS-U tokamak, using most of the existing infrastructure and the experience of the young COMPASS tokamak team. This tokamak will be a flexible device, capable to address many of the known gaps in the plasma exhaust physics and to explore innovative divertor regimes and advanced confinement modes important for the next-step fusion devices. The first plasma of COMPASS-U is expected in 2021. The new tokamak aims at generating plasma close to DEMO in the relevant parameters, namely, high plasma density, strong magnetic field and high power density.
Keywords
TokamakITERthermonuclear fusionDEMOplasma physicsdivertorhigh magnetic field
Public support
Provider
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Programme
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Call for proposals
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Main participants
Ústav fyziky plazmatu AV ČR, v. v. i.
Contest type
OP - EU Operational Programme
Contract ID
16_019/0000768-01
Alternative language
Project name in Czech
COMPASS-U: Tokamak pro špičkový výzkum jaderné fúze
Annotation in Czech
Projekt cílí na vyplnění některých z klíčových znalostních mezer identifikovaných konsorciem EUROfusion pro konstrukci prvního termonukleárního fúzního reaktoru vyrábějícího elektrickou energii - DEMO. Primárním cílem projektu je konstrukce nového tokamaku COMPASS-U, s využitím většiny stávající infrastruktury (budovy, podpůrné systémy) a zkušeností mladého týmu tokamaku COMPASS. Tento tokamak bude flexibilním zařízením, schopným řešit mnohé ze známých mezer ve fyzice odvodu plazmatu a energie, jakož i zkoumat inovativní režimy divertoru a pokročilé scénáře udržení důležité pro budoucí fúzní zařízení. První plazma v tokamaku COMPASS-U se předpokládá v roce 2021. Nový tokamak cílí na generování plazmatu s parametry blízkými reaktoru DEMO, konkrétně vysokou hustotu, silné magnetické pole a vysokou hustotu výkonu.
Scientific branches
R&D category
ZV - Basic research
OECD FORD - main branch
10305 - Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)
OECD FORD - secondary branch
10304 - Nuclear physics
OECD FORD - another secondary branch
20305 - Nuclear related engineering; (nuclear physics to be 1.3);
BG - Nuclear, atomic and molecular physics, accelerators
BK - Liquid mechanics
BL - Plasma physics and discharge through gases
JF - Nuclear energy
Completed project evaluation
Provider evaluation
V - Vynikající výsledky projektu (s mezinárodním významem atd.)
Project results evaluation
The project enabled the consolidation of research teams, the deepening of cooperation with universities and the creation of a background for the inclusion of students and doctoral students in cutting-edge research. Realized investments enabled research and educational activities for students and cooperating and visiting foreign workers. Some of the originally planned goals of the project (in particular, the improvement of the existing research infrastructure - the COMPASS tokamak - to a world-unique high-magnetic field tokamak capable of developing and testing innovative and DEMO-relevant divertor configurations and maintenance modes under different plasma conditions) are moving into the second phase, which will be implemented in a subsequent project.
Solution timeline
Realization period - beginning
Dec 1, 2017
Realization period - end
Jun 30, 2023
Project status
U - Finished project
Latest support payment
Sep 6, 2020
Data delivery to CEP
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data delivery code
CEP24-MSM-EF-U
Data delivery date
Jul 1, 2024
Finance
Total approved costs
797,018 thou. CZK
Public financial support
797,018 thou. CZK
Other public sources
0 thou. CZK
Non public and foreign sources
39,850 thou. CZK
Basic information
Recognised costs
797 018 CZK thou.
Public support
797 018 CZK thou.
100%
Provider
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
OECD FORD
Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)
Solution period
01. 12. 2017 - 30. 06. 2023