The Quest for a Fusion Energy Reactor : An Insider's Account of the INTOR Workshop


Weston. Stacey
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
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Oxford : : Oxford University Press, USA, , 2010.
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1 online resource (199 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; 1 Prologue (1978); 2 Zero Phase of the INTOR Workshop (1978-80); 3 Phase 1 of the INTOR Workshop (1980-81); 4 Phase 2A of the INTOR Workshop (1981-88); 5 Epilogue; Appendices; Glossary; Bibliography of Offcial INTOR Workshop Publications. - At the Geneva Superpower Summit in November 1985, Secretary of the former Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Regan agreed to pursue an international effort to develop fusion energy for peaceful purposes. At a time when tension between these cold war nations was very high, how were these leaders able to come together to work towards making nuclear fusion a feasible energy source? The Quest for a Fusion Energy Reactor is the story of the INTOR Workshop (INternational TOkamak Reactor) which brought together scientists and engineers from Europe, Japan, the United States, and th
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