When it was decommissioned at Culham, it was offered to the European Commission and found a new home at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague where it began operations once again in 2006.

[1][2][3][4] It officially ended its experimental runs on 20 August 2021 and was disassembled to leave room for a new device, COMPASS-U.

Besides COMPASS, there are only two operational tokamaks in Europe with ITER-like configuration capable of H-mode, the Joint European Torus (JET) at Culham and the ASDEX Upgrade at the Institut für Plasmaphysik in Garching, Germany.

In 2002, British scientists started alternative research on larger, spherical tokamak MAST.

After August 2021, COMPASS was disassembled to make way for a significantly larger machine, COMPASS-U (for Upgrade).