"Penn State University is almost seven thousand kilometers away from us, so online communication has a slight delay (~20 ms, which is just the typical length of our tokamak discharge), but distance is not really an obstacle to remotely ignite the plasma in our Golem," explains Vojtěch Svoboda from the Department of Physics at FJFI, who is the main head of the Golem tokamak facility.
Students and scientists from all over the world (in the summer, for example, for the first time also from Africa) can work remotely with the Golem tokamak, which is the oldest still working tokamak. It was put into operation in 1959 and FJFI has been operating it since 2007. Several thousand discharges have been carried out across the borders of the Czech Republic during the operation of this tokamak.
Records of discharges performed for Penn State University students are available online at http://golem.fjfi.cvut.cz/shots/40037 - demonstration discharge and then from http://golem.fjfi.cvut.cz/shots/40050 to http://golem.fjfi.cvut.cz/shots/40070 recorded discharges of their experimental work.