Nuclear Fusion: Half a Century of Magnetic Confinement Fusion Research

ISBN: 0750307056
Title: Nuclear Fusion: Half a Century of Magnetic Confinement Fusion Research
(Series on Plasma Physics)
Author: C.M. Braams
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication Date: 2002-06-20
Number Of Pages: 327
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Although the task remains unfinished, the end of the road for fusion research could be in sight if society makes the right decisions. This book is a careful, scholarly account of the course of fusion energy research over the past fifty years. The authors outline the different paths followed by fusion research from initial ignorance to present understanding. They explore why a particular scheme would not work and why it was more profitable to concentrate on the mainstream tokamak development. The

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