This book is the first to focus on tokamaks, the principal research tool in controlled fusion research. Beginning with an examination of the tokamak's place in the field and the requirements of working power generation, ensuing chapters cover such topics as plasma physics, properties of the tokamak, plasma heating methods and problems associated with them, and diagnostic methods. The author also provides an appendix on background mathematical and physical theory. Copiously illustrated throughout and designed with an unusually large page size, this easy to use handbook is both a sound introduction and a basic guide to theory, definitions, and equations for workers in plasma physics, nuclear fusion, energy resources, and power systems.
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'...a substantial enlargement over the original 1985 edition, which has enjoyed wide popularity amongst fusion researchers. ...The material is presented in the half intuitive, half mathematical language of an experienced and knowledgeable professional. ...all groups would find this to be a most valuable new edition to the fusion literature.' D.E. Baldwin, Nuclear Fusion , Vol. 37, No. 6, 1997
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John Wesson, Theoretical Physicist, JET Joint Undertaking, Abingdon, Oxon.
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If fusion is to become a practical reality, the design and usage of tokamaks will play a central role. Here is a research level summary of the latest [2004] about tokamaks. The book is very specialised; geared towards the professional physicist in this field. And to graduate students struggling with outdated texts.
Different geometries of tokamaks are explained, with comparisons of their relative capabilities. Overall, the emphasis seems to be on the experimental issues. Though you can see discussions of the nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic equations that make theoretical analysis so difficult. An overall impression of the book is that we have far to go in pushing the density*confinement product towards a fusion regime.
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If a nucleus of deuterium fuses with a nucleus of tritium, an -particle is produced and a neutron released. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
neoclassical resistivity, ion thermal diffusivity, electron cyclotron current drive, sawtooth collapse, high fusion performance, plasma centre, hybrid current drive, minority resonance, neoclassical tearing modes, toroidal field ripple, supershot regime, bootstrap current fraction, electron drift wave, current drive efficiency, cold plasma resonance, ergodic divertor, fishbone instability, sawtooth stabilization, internal transport barrier, plasma elongation, sawtooth activity, mhd activity, ballooning limit, fusion triple product, global energy confinement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Physical Review Letters, New York, Physics of Fluids, Academic Press, Physics of Plasmas, Monte Carlo, Consultants Bureau, Soviet Physics, San Diego, Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor, Tore Supra, Journal of Nuclear Materials, Plenum Press, Alcator C-Mod, Cambridge University Press, Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, Divertor Air, Eds Granatstein, European Conference, Kurchatov Institute, Pergamon Press, United Kingdom, American Institute of Physics, Review of Scientific Instruments, United States New!
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If a nucleus of deuterium fuses with a nucleus of tritium, an -particle is produced and a neutron released. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
neoclassical resistivity, ion thermal diffusivity, electron cyclotron current drive, sawtooth collapse, high fusion performance, plasma centre, hybrid current drive, minority resonance, neoclassical tearing modes, toroidal field ripple, supershot regime, bootstrap current fraction, electron drift wave, current drive efficiency, cold plasma resonance, ergodic divertor, fishbone instability, sawtooth stabilization, internal transport barrier, plasma elongation, sawtooth activity, mhd activity, ballooning limit, fusion triple product, global energy confinement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Physical Review Letters, New York, Physics of Fluids, Academic Press, Physics of Plasmas, Monte Carlo, Consultants Bureau, Soviet Physics, San Diego, Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor, Tore Supra, Journal of Nuclear Materials, Plenum Press, Alcator C-Mod, Cambridge University Press, Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, Divertor Air, Eds Granatstein, European Conference, Kurchatov Institute, Pergamon Press, United Kingdom, American Institute of Physics, Review of Scientific Instruments, United States New!
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- Plasma Physics (Institute of Physics Conference Series) by Culham Laboratory on 9 pages
- Nuclear Fusion: Half a Century of Magnetic Confinement Fusion Research (Series on Plasma Physics) by C.M. Braams on 4 pages
- Plasma physics by R. A Cairns on page 300
- William Morris: Romantic to revolutionary by E. P Thompson in Front Matter
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