Buch, Englisch, 595 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1141 g
ISBN: 978-1-4613-7690-3
Verlag: Springer US
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1. Opening Remarks.- Section I.- 2. Controlled Fusion, Soon!.- Magnetic Confinement.- 3. Comments on the Feasibility of Achieving Scientific Break-Even with a Plasma Focus Machine.- 4. Self-Colliding Beams as an Alternative Fusion System for D-He3 Reactors.- Inertial Confinement.- 5. Target Physics for Inertial Fusion Energy.- 6. Spherical Pinch Research: Historical Background, Achievements, and Projections.- Section II.- 7. Perspectives of Advanced Confinement Programs.- Magnetic Confinement.- 8. Present Status of Field-Reversed Configurations.- 9. Ignition Physics and the Ignitor Project.- Other Confinement.- 10. The Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Approach to Fusion Power.- 11. The D-3He Dipole Fusion Reactor.- 12. Open-Ended Magnetic Confinement Systems for Fusion.- 13. Formation, Compression, and Acceleration of Magnetized Plasmas.- 14. Prospects of Magnetic Electrostatic Plasma Confinement.- Tutorial Talk.- 15. Analysis of the Fusion Breakeven Conditions for D-T Plasmas of Prescribed Temperature Evolution.- Section III.- 16. Progress in Inertial Fusion Research.- Inertial Confinement.- 17. Heavy-Ion Driven Inertial Fusion Energy.- 18. X-Ray Driven Implosions on the Nova Laser.- 19. Present Status and Future Prospects of Laser Fusion Research at Osaka.- 20. Magnetized Target Fusion: An Overview of the Concept.- 21. Thermonuclear Fusion in a Staged Pinch.- 22. Novel Staged Z-Pinch Concept as Super Radiant X-Ray Source for ICF.- Section IV.- 23. Fusion, the Competition, and the Prospects for Alternative Fusion Concepts.- Magnetic Confinement.- 24. Ideas for Future RFP Experiments.- 25.Dense Z-Pinches for Fusion.- 26. Assessment of Field-Reversed-Configuration Stability.- Other.- 27. Muon-Catalyzed Fusion in 1996.- 28. Experimental Investigation of Muon-Catalyzed Fusion in Mixtures of Hydrogen Isotopes.- 29. Magnetoelectric Toroidal Confinement.- 30. Ball Lightning: What Nature Is Trying to Tell the Fusion Community.- 31. Fusion Implications of Free-Floating Plasmak™ Magnetoplasmoids.- Section V.- 32. Alternate Fusion Concepts.- Inertial Confinement.- 33. Inertial Fusion Driven by Intense Cluster Ion Beams.- 34. Inertial Fusion Energy: An Approach to Low Maintenance and Cost of Electricity, and the Role of the National Ignition Facility Testing the Target Physics.- 35. Magnetized Target Fusion: An Ultrahigh Energy Approach in an Unexplored Parameter Space.- Section VI.- 36. Concluding Remarks.- Section VII.- 37. Report of the Evaluators.- 38. Biographies of Evaluators.- Participants.
