Towards Fusion Energy: The European Programme

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Commission of the European Communities Towards Fusion Energy: The European Programme EUR 5462e Commission of the European Communities Towards Fusion Energy: The European Programme Prepared and published by: Directorate-General Scientific and Technical Information and Information Management, Luxembourg. Edited by: Edward Phillips January 1976 EUR 5462e I - FUSION: ENERGY FOR THE FUTURE Why fusion must be made to work 5 The basic physics of fusion . 6 Obstacles to fusion .... 7 What's new in fusion research? . 9 Confining and heating the plasma 9 Fusion for aficionados 16 CONTENTS The next steps 19 II - HOW THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION SUPPORTS FUSION RESEARCH Size of the programme 23 Management structure 24 How long will it take? 26 ΠΙ - FUSION RESEARCH BECOMES JET-PROPELLED 27 The parameters of JET 30 Heating the plasma . 30 Radioactivity . 32 Time-scale Other machines like JET 32 IV - THE NEXT FIVE-YEAR PLAN 39 Staff and costs . I - FUSION: ENERGY FOR THE FUTURE The Sun is the origin of practically all the energy Up to now the only known way of reproducing the on the Earth, including hydroelectric, wind and tidal fusion process is in the hydrogen bomb. At the heart energy, and fossil fuels such as coal and oil. But of a hydrogen bomb is a fission bomb which acts as these are indirect ways of harnessing the Sun's a detonator to initiate the fusion reaction. For fusion energy.

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• Publié par: DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-THE-INFORMATION-SOCIETY-AND-MEDIA
• Nombre de lectures: 12
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 7 Mo

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