Fusion : a voyage through the plasma universe /

• Main Author: Wilhelmsson, Hans
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol [England] ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics Pub., �2000.
• Series: Plasma physics series.
• Subjects: Controlled fusion.; Plasma (Ionized gases); Plasma dynamics.; SCIENCE > Physics > Nuclear.; SCIENCE > Physics > Atomic & Molecular.; Electronic books.

"Professor Hans Wilhelmsson shares with us his 50-year, life-long dream as one of fusion's main contemporary figures, to recreate on Earth the conditions that give rise to fusion at the heart of the Sun. He takes us through time on an epic voyage where we meet Nobel prize-winning character...

Table of Contents:

• The importance of words and of formulae
• The vocabulary of fusion plasma science
• pt. 1. Fusion in the Cosmos. 1. Plasmas. 2. Nuclear fusion. 3. The cosmos. 4. The plasma universe. 5. Electrical discharges
• pt. 2. Fusion on Earth. 6. Dynamic fine structure of plasmas. 7. The art of magnetic confinement. 8. Microballoon explosions by lasers: inertial confinement. 9. The fusion reactor. 10. Outlook into the future. Conclusions
• the great fusion plant
• Short fusion-plasma dictionary.