Making a Star on Earth: Nuclear Fusion

Making a Star on Earth: Nuclear Fusion

17.7.2019 / 16:00 - 16:45
Meltingpot The Big Bang stage

The Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering at CTU in Prague received a unique experimental thermonuclear fusion device called a TOKAMAK. The local scientists christened the Prague machine ‘GOLEM’. This talk will present what thermonuclear fusion is and what are its advantages as a source of energy for human kind. We will discuss possible ways of controlling the energy of stars on Earth.

Vojtěch Svoboda (CZE)

Vojtěch Svoboda (originally from OSTRAVA!!!) graduated from the Nuclear Faculty and immediately after the school began to study thermonuclear fusion on the 'CASTOR' tokamak at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. He liked it so much that he transferred it to the Nuclear Faculty, renamed it 'GOLEM' and modified its infrastructure so that it can be controlled over the Internet, even from a mobile phone. He now educates future fusion professionals in the Czech Republic and abroad in the frame of Fusenet Education Network. He believes he will have a better plasma regime if he plays the violin for the GOLEM tokamak :-)