Nuclear Fusion: Half a Century of Magnetic Confinement Fusion ResearchCRC Press, 20 juin 2002 - 327 pages Fusion research started over half a century ago. Although the task remains unfinished, the end of the road could be in sight if society makes the right decisions. Nuclear Fusion: Half a Century of Magnetic Confinement Fusion Research is a careful, scholarly account of the course of fusion energy research over the past fifty years. The authors outline the different paths followed by fusion research from initial ignorance to present understanding. They explore why a particular scheme would not work and why it was more profitable to concentrate on the mainstream tokamak development. The book features descriptive sections, in-depth explanations of certain physical and technical issues, scientific terms, and an extensive glossary that explains relevant abbreviations and acronyms. |
Table des matières
The road to Geneva | 1 |
112 Fusion reactions on Earth | 4 |
113 The origins of plasma physics | 7 |
12 In and out of secrecy | 16 |
122 Looking behind the curtain | 20 |
123 The road to travel | 26 |
Geneva 1958 | 31 |
22 Steadystate mirror confinement | 35 |
68 Neoclassical theory | 172 |
69 Empirical scalings | 176 |
The next generation | 179 |
72 Radiofrequency heating | 184 |
73 Noninductive current drive | 187 |
74 The switch to carbon | 189 |
75 Beta limits | 191 |
76 Confinement degradation | 192 |
23 Pulsed mirrors and theta pinches | 40 |
24 Stellarators | 43 |
25 Toroidal pinches | 49 |
26 RF fields and other subjects | 52 |
27 Looking back at Geneva | 53 |
Open systems | 56 |
311 Mirror loss | 57 |
312 The quest for burnout | 58 |
313 MHD stability | 61 |
314 Velocityspace instabilities in mirror machines | 64 |
32 Tandem mirrors | 68 |
33 Zpinch and plasma focus | 75 |
34 Theta pinches | 80 |
35 Unconventional schemes | 84 |
36 The status of open systems | 89 |
Pulsed toroidal systems and alternative lines | 90 |
42 Stabilized and reversedfield pinches | 92 |
43 Screw pinches | 103 |
44 Fieldreversed configurations and spheromaks | 105 |
45 Internalring devices | 114 |
46 Unconventional toroidal schemes | 120 |
47 Status of alternative toroidal systems | 122 |
Stellarators versus tokamaks | 124 |
from Geneva to Novosibirsk | 129 |
53 Diagnosing the plasma | 134 |
54 Stellarators trailing tokamaks | 143 |
The dash to tokamaks | 152 |
62 Neutral beam heating | 157 |
63 Disruptions and density limits | 159 |
64 Sawteeth | 161 |
65 Passing through purgatory | 164 |
66 Hydrogen recycling and refuelling | 168 |
67 Divertors | 170 |
77 The Hmode | 195 |
78 Attempts to understand confinement | 197 |
79 Transport codes | 200 |
The era of the big tokamaks | 202 |
811 JETthe Joint European Torus | 203 |
812 TFTRthe Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor | 206 |
813 JT60 | 207 |
82 Operation and results | 210 |
822 Keeping clean | 212 |
823 Pushing to higher performance | 214 |
824 Real fusion power at last | 217 |
825 The end of the era | 221 |
831 Reactorrelevant divertor physics | 222 |
832 Advanced tokamak scenarios | 223 |
833 Spherical tokamaks | 225 |
84 Towards ignition | 227 |
Towards a fusion reactor | 230 |
92 Second thoughts | 233 |
93 Pioneering studies | 236 |
94 Drawing fire | 240 |
95 Economic and social aspects of fusion | 244 |
96 Joining forces for the next step | 247 |
97 ITER | 249 |
971 The ITER EDA design | 250 |
972 The physics basis | 253 |
973 Decision and indecision | 255 |
974 Back to the drawing board | 258 |
Epilogue | 261 |
270 | |
Symbols | 298 |
Glossary | 301 |
315 | |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
Alamos Alcator Alfvén Alfvén waves Artsimovich Atomic axial big tokamaks Bohm Bohm diffusion carbon coils compression configuration cross-section Culham cyclotron density deuterium developed devices diffusion DIII-D discharge divertor electric electron temperature energy confinement equilibrium experimental experiments field lines figure fission flux fusion energy fusion power fusion reactor fusion research Garching Geneva H-mode hydrogen IAEA ignition impurities injection instabilities INTOR ion temperature ionized ITER Kurchatov Institute laboratory limit Livermore loss magnetic field magnetic surfaces major radius mirror machines mode Moscow neutral beam neutron Novosibirsk Nucl nuclear Oak Ridge Ohmic heating operation parameters particle plasma current plasma physics poloidal potential pressure Princeton produced profiles proposed pulse radiation ratio reaction rotational transform Salzburg scaling spheromak stability stellarator superconducting TFTR theory thermal thermonuclear theta pinch tokamak toroidal field toroidal magnetic toroidal pinch torsatron torus trapped tritium vacuum velocity waves Z-pinch ZETA