Fusion - The Search for Endless Energy

Informationen zum Autor Robin Herman is currently Assistant Dean for Communications at Harvard School of Public Health. Zusammenfassung Using the personal recollections of the scientists involved! this book traces the little-known international race to build the first atomic fusion reactor that began during the Cold War in secret laboratories in the USA! Britain and the Soviet Union! and evolved into an astonishing collaboration between East and West. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; 1. The invention of Dr Spitzer; 2. Behind closed doors; 3. Friends and rivals; 4. Searching for answers; 5. Dawn of the tokamak; 6. Building big science; 7. Forming the major league; 8. The political plasma; 9. The modern fusion lab; 10. The plasma olympics; 11. Different directions; 12. Struggling to sell fusion; 13. In sight of breakeven; 14. Fusion's past and future; Notes; Glossary; Appendices; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Herman, Robin (Assistant Dean for Communications) Herman, Herman Robin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2006
• EAN: 9780521024952
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02495-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / Nuclear, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, History of engineering and technology, History of engineering & technology, Nuclear power & engineering, Nuclear power and engineering