This book explains the fundamentals and concepts behind fusion power, and traces the development of fusion historically by decade--covering its history as dictated by US government policies, its major successes, and its prognosis for the future. The reader will gain an understan…
Why has the clean, limitless energy promised by fusion always seemed just out of reach? "Search for the ultimate energy source: A history of the U.S. Fusion Energy Program" explains the fundamentals and concepts behind fusion power, and tracesthe development of fusion historical…
This second volume title presents a review of the state-of-the-art theory and application of magnetically confined plasma physics. The book covers three major topics: the Braginskii transport theory, the newly developed perpendicular magnetofluid theory, and the fluid-kinetic hy…
1What is Nuclear Fusion? -- 2Energy from Mass -- 3Fusion in the Sun and Stars -- 4Man-made Fusion -- 5Magnetic confinement -- 6The Hydrogen bomb -- 7Inertial Confinement -- 8False trails -- 9Tokamaks -- 10The Big Tokamaks -- 11Next Steps -- 12Does the World Need Fusion?What is n…