Fusion by McCracken, Garry, Stott, Peter -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Image Table of Contents Title Copyright Dedication Technical Summaries Foreword to the Second Edition Foreword to the First Edition Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. What Is Nuclear Fusion?

1.1 The Alchemists’ Dream 1.2 The Sun’s Energy 1.3 Can We Use Fusion Energy? 1.4 Man-Made Suns 1.5 The Rest of the Story

Chapter 2. Energy from Mass

2.1 Einstein’s Theory 2.2 Building Blocks 2.3 Something Missing

Chapter 3. Fusion in the Sun and Stars

3.1 The Source of the Sun’s Energy 3.2 The Solar Furnace 3.3 Gravitational Confinement 3.4 The Formation of Heavier Atoms 3.5 Stars and Supernovae

Chapter 4. Man-Made Fusion

4.1 Down to Earth 4.2 Getting It Together 4.3 Breaking Even

Chapter 5. Magnetic Confinement

5.1 The First Experiments 5.2 Behind Closed Doors 5.3 Opening the Doors 5.4 ZETA 5.5 From Geneva to Novosibirsk

Chapter 6. The Hydrogen Bomb

6.1 The Background 6.2 The Problems 6.3 Beyond the “Sloyka” 6.4 Peaceful Uses?

Chapter 7. Inertial-Confinement Fusion

7.1 Mini-Explosions 7.2 Using Lasers 7.3 Alternative Drivers 7.4 The Future Program

Chapter 8. False Trails

8.1 Fusion in a Test Tube? 8.2 Bubble Fusion 8.3 Fusion with Mesons

Chapter 9. Tokamaks

9.1 The Basics 9.2 Instabilities 9.3 Diagnosing the Plasma 9.4 Impurities 9.5 Heating the Plasma

Chapter 10. From T3 to ITER

10.1 The Big Tokamaks 10.2 Pushing to Peak Performance 10.3 Tritium Operation 10.4 Scaling to a Power Plant 10.5 The Next Step 10.6 Continuing Research 10.7 Variations on the Tokamak Theme 10.8 Stellarators Revisited

Chapter 11. ITER

11.1 Historical Background 11.2 The Construction Phase Begins 11.3 Overview of the ITER Tokamak 11.4 The Construction Schedule

Chapter 12. Large Inertial-Confinement Systems

12.1 Driver Energy 12.2 The National Ignition Facility 12.3 Laser Mégajoule (LMJ) 12.4 OMEGA and OMEGA EP 12.5 FIREX 12.6 HiPER 12.7 Future Steps

Chapter 13. Fusion Power Plants

13.1 Early Plans 13.2 Fusion Power-Plant Geometry 13.3 Radiation Damage and Shielding 13.4 Low-Activation Materials 13.5 Magnetic-Confinement Fusion 13.6 Conceptual Power-Plant Studies and DEMO 13.7 Inertial-Confinement Fusion 13.8 A Demonstration ICF Power Plant—LIFE 13.9 Tritium Breeding

Chapter 14. Why We Will Need Fusion Energy

14.1 World Energy Needs 14.2 The Choice of Fuels 14.3 The Environmental Impact of Fusion Energy 14.4 The Cost of Fusion Energy

Units

Scientific Notation Units

Glossary Further Reading Index