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# Tokamak GOLEM for (worldwide) fusion education
*The smallest and oldest tokamak with the biggest control room in the world*
**Universities are welcome to exploit the possibilities of the both remote and in-situ operation of the tokamak GOLEM for educational purposes. Half or whole day sessions for group of students are excellent introduction to the physics and technology practice of thermonuclear fusion in the magnetic confinement.**
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Training courses: left) on site; right) remote.
## Introduction
Tokamak GOLEM is ready to serve as an hands-on or a remote educational tool for various presentations, lectures and training courses in the field of physics and technology of tokamaks. Students can operate the tokamak via web interface:
and instantly can access the results via shot homepage:
[](http://golem.fjfi.cvut.cz/shots/22471/)
## Tokamak GOLEM
### Main parameters:
* Vessel major radius $R_0=0.4$ m
* Vessel minor radius $r_0=0.1$ m
* Toroidal magnetic field $B_t<0.5$ T
* Plasma current $I_p<8$ kA
* Length of the discharge $τ<20$ ms
* Central electron density $n_e(0)≈0.5−3×10^{19} m^{−3}$
* Central electron temperature $T_e(0)≈100−300$ eV
### Experimental set-up:
### Basic experimental menu
[Example reports from educational events worlwide](http://golem.fjfi.cvut.cz/wiki/Education/ExperimentMenu/SelectedReports/)
* Basic tokamak operation and measurements
* [Electron energy confinement $\tau_E$ time determination](http://golem.fjfi.cvut.cz/wikiraw/Education/ExperimentMenu/1stLevelBasic/ElectronEnergyConfinementTime/Code/Jupyter/python_ver3/22471vs22475/code/script.html)
* Breakdown Studies
* Magnetic Measurements
* Probe Measurements
* Isotopic studies
* Plasma MHD Activity Observations via Magnetic Diagnostics
* Plasma Position Monitoring and Controlling
* Spectroscopy Studies
* Vessel Conditioning
## Examples
* [One example of a well documented remote training course](http://golem.fjfi.cvut.cz/wiki/TrainingCourses/Universities/MIPT_Moscow.ru/20/index)
* [One example of a well done remote training course](http://golem.fjfi.cvut.cz/wikiraw/TrainingCourses/PlasmaSchools/ASPNF.th/18/)
* [Remote laboratory practice HUNTRAIC, Hungary](http://golem.fjfi.cvut.cz/wiki/TrainingCourses/Universities/BUTE_Budapest.hu/10/index)
* [Proposal.](/TrainingCourses/Universities/BUTE_Budapest.hu/10/GOLEM_proposal_final.pdf)
* [Instructions.](/TrainingCourses/Universities/BUTE_Budapest.hu/10/GOLEM_instructions.pdf)
* [Final logbook.](/TrainingCourses/Universities/BUTE_Budapest.hu/10/Logbook.pdf)
* [Remote demo for Joint European Research Doctorate In Fusion Science And Engineering And European Doctoral Network in Padova, Italy](http://golem.fjfi.cvut.cz/wiki/TrainingCourses/Universities/Uni_Padova.it/PhD_workshop/14/index)
* [Tokamak GOLEM for 6th International Workshop & Summer School on Plasma Physics 30 June – 6 July](http://golem.fjfi.cvut.cz/wiki/TrainingCourses/PlasmaSchools/Kiten.bg/14/index)
* [The whole list of hands-on/remote events at the tokamak GOLEM](http://golem.fjfi.cvut.cz/wiki/TrainingCourses/)
* [Archive of several remote trainings](http://golem.fjfi.cvut.cz/wiki/TrainingCourses/archive)
* [ITER news-line - Students command 100 plasma pulses, remotely](http://www.iter.org/newsline/213/1087)
* [ITER news-line - Launch of the world's first global tokamak experiment](http://www.iter.org/newsline/156/512)
## Quotations
* <blockquote><i>Dear GOLEM team, let me congratulate you to the first plasma in GOLEM achieved in the frame of the
Summer Training Course 2009. This success is a result of your enormous effort to put the GOLEM tokamak
in operation during the period of about one year. I can confirm that the participants (students
and supervisors) found the experiments performed yesterday extremely interesting and enjoyed them very
much.</i><p align="right">On behalf of the old CASTOR and new COMPASS team, Jan Stockel</p></blockquote>
* <blockquote><i>First of all, we would like to express our gratitude for this remarkable opportunity.
To perform a remote measurement on a tokamak, and to be part of such an international operation for
the first time in our life, is way beyond our earlier expectations as physics students.
We wish you luck for the future, and lots of plasma :) </i>
<p align="right">Andras Karman, Gergely Klujber, Mate Ferenczy and Peter Nemetvarga (BME Hungary)</p>
</blockquote>
* <blockquote><i>Thanks for the operation! The lab exercise went perfectly well, and the students were really enjoying it. </i><p
align="right">Gergo Pokol (supervisor and teacher at HUNTRAIC)</p></blockquote>
* <blockquote><i>I just wanted to thank you for coming in Cadarache to introduce us to the
amazing work you've done with the GOLEM tokamak. It is fascinating to
be able to work on such a device, and were really enjoying the
possibility to make our very first discharges .. From all of us, thank you again.</i><p
align="right">FUMTRAIC 2012 participants </p></blockquote>
* <blockquote><i>Thanks for the operation! The lab exercise went perfectly well, and the students were really enjoying it.</i><p align="right">Training course for the 3rd plasma nuclear fusion training course @ Bangkok, Thailand</p></blockquote>
* <blockquote><i><b>The EUROfusion consortium has taken note of the systematic and successful efforts of the FNSPE CTU in the field of education of future fusion experts, with a significant impact on the European level. Remote experiments on the GOLEM tokamak in Prague are in the curriculum of several European summer schools in the fields Last year, ....</i></b><p align="right">prof. Tony Donné, EUROfusion Programme Manager</p></blockquote>
* <blockquote><i>Thank you very much for leading the experiment! Students say, that is the most interesting thing happened to them during university studying.</i><p align="right">Georgiy Alexandrovich Sarancha, (coordinator for MIPT students, winter 2020-2021)</p></blockquote>
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[The chronicle of all educational activities performed at the tokamak GOLEM from 2009 up to now](http://golem.fjfi.cvut.cz/?article=Chronicle/edu)
## References
* [Dr. Gergo Pokol for HUNTRAIC (Training course for Budapest University of Technology and Economics)](/Production/Contacts/GP)
* [Dr. Remy Guirlet for FUMTRAIC (Training course for France Master students)](/Production/Contacts/RG)
* [Dr. Jan Stockel for a lot of educational activities at the tokamak GOLEM (Institute of plasma physics, Czech Academy of Sciences)](/Production/Contacts/HS)
* [Milos Vlainic for Training course from Belgrade](/Production/Contacts/MV)
## Useful materials
* **<font color="red">[Depot of instruction manuals for GOLEM training courses](http://golem.fjfi.cvut.cz/wiki/Education/Instructions/index)</font>**
* [The GOLEM Bibliography](http://golem.fjfi.cvut.cz/wiki/Bibliography)
* [FUSENET (Fusion Education network) final report](/ShowRooms/AnnualReports/FUSENET/09-13GOLEM4Fusenet.pdf)
* [Jana Brotankova, Study of high temperature plasma in tokamak-like experimental devices, Ph.D. thesis](http://golem.fjfi.cvut.cz/wiki/Library/GOLEM/PhDthesis/JanaBrotankovaPhDthesis.pdf)
* [Possible introductory presentation (can be modified and latex source files available as well on request)](/Presentations/GlobalOverviews/Training/general.NZ/presentWOmovies.pdf)
## Production issues
(difficult to describe, this is only for basic understanding, please contact us for more details)
* Various models to consider (student group somewhere in the world undergoing some thermonuclear fusion education specific event - training course, plasma/tokamak school/subject, etc. ):
* Somebody from the GOLEM team can come to the institution and deliver the presentation about the tokamak GOLEM, it's operation, data manipulation and possible task to perform personally (preferably) or remotely via some kind of video-conferencing. Then one or more days later the real remote session could be established.
* Somebody experienced in the field of tokamak physics, technology and operation learn the GOLEM specific issues, undergoes introductory GOLEM operation training in advance and then it is possible proceed to the the real remote session for students.
* Contact: [Vojtech Svoboda](/Production/Staff/VojtechSvoboda/index)
* Fee: a postcard sent from the town of remote measurement to the GOLEM address: Brehova 7, 115 19, Prague 1, Czech republic
* [Common issues: virtual model & GOLEM tours & data handling & production](/TrainingCourses/commons)
## Pandemic set-up
We can do it in e.g. this way:
* Tokamak operator at the Golem
* Local student’s tutors at their homes/labs/offices.
* Students at their homes.
* Possibly up to 3 GOLEM tokamak PhD students ready to guide or assist with everything concerning tokamak GOLEM physics/technology/diagnostics/operation.
* It is possible to divide students into a certain number of groups each having its own videoconference room and tokamak control room. We are familier with the zoom, teams, skype & jitsi videoconference technology.
