Fusion (2^nd Ed.) The Energy of the Universe

Fusion: The Energy of the Universe, 2e is an essential reference providing basic principles of fusion energy from its history to the issues and realities progressing from the present day energy crisis. The book provides detailed developments and applications for researchers entering the field of fusion energy research. This second edition includes the latest results from the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, CA, and the progress on the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) tokamak programme at Caderache, France.

1. What is Nuclear fusion?2. Energy from Mass3. Fusion in the Sun and Stars4. Man-Made Fusion5. Magnetic Confinement6. The Hydrogen Bomb7. Inertial Confinement Fusion8. False Trails9. Tokamaks10. From T3 to ITER11. ITER12. Large Inertial Confinement Systems13. Fusion Power Plants14. Why We Will Need Fusion Energy

Researchers and graduate students in the plasma area—inertial fusion and magnetic fusion, and high energy density science and aerospace; physicists; electrical engineers, nuclear engineers; industrial engineers

When the JET Joint Undertaking was set up as a European Fusion Laboratory to build the JET experiment he led a Task Agreement on the plasma boundary physics. His group built and installed major diagnostics on JET and an active experimental programme was pursued. In 1993 he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and worked on the C-Mod tokamak in the Plasma Fusion Center. Returning to the UK in 1996 to work again on JET, until his retirement in 1999.

He has published over 300 scientific papers including three major reviews in the general area of plasma-surface interactions. He was a regular lecturer at the Culham Plasma Physics Summer School until 1991 and has been invited to lecture at a number of other Summer school courses in Canada and Europe. During these latter lectures he began to feel that there was no adequate book to explain the subject of nuclear fusion to the staring physicist and engineer or the interested layman and set about writing the present book.

Peter Stott became interested in fusion energy whilst still an undergraduate student in 1962 and did his PhD in theoretical and experimental plasma physics working between Manchester University and the Harwell and Culham Laboratories. He joined the UK Atomic Energy Authority at Culham Laboratory in 1966 and has spent his professional career as an experimental phys

• Comprehensive coverage— basic principles, detailed developments and practical applications
• Wide accessibility, but with sufficient detail to keep the technical reader engaged
• Details the initial discovery of nuclear fusion, current attempts to create nuclear fusion here on earth and today's concern over future energy supply
• Color illustrations and examples
• Includes technical notes for aspiring physicists