History/content

The GOLEM tokamak was built as TM-1 (Tokamak Malyj – meaning "a small tokamak No 1") in Moscow in 1960 thus being the third tokamak after T-1 and T-2. Then the machine was reinstalled in the Institute of Plasma Physics Prague in 1977 as TM-1 MH serving as a test bed for theorie dealing with radiofrequency driven plasma current. In 1883 it was reconstructed and renamed from TM-1 MH to CASTOR. It then worked as a scientific device in the field of small tokamaks up to 2007 when the machine underwent it’s third transport to the Czech Technical University with the aim to prepare a high temperature experiment for a newly established curricula "The physics and Technology of Thermonuclear Fusion" at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering.