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Fusion - The Search for Endless Energy
Cambridge University Press Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1991 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, under editor's blue illustrated dust-jacket grand In-8 1 vol. - 278 pages
few black in white figures 1st was 1990, reprinted twice in 1991 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Preface, xi, Text, 267 pages - 1. The invention of Dr. Spitzer - Juan Peron's 1951 blunder - The secret Matterhorn project at Princeton - Growing pains on the Stellarator - 2. Igor Kurcharov's revelation - The design of Andrei Sakharov - Zeta's public relations debacle - 3. Friend and rivals - 1958 : The freedom of declassification - Competition in Geneva - Forging the international fraternity - 4. Searching for answers - Lev Artsimovich attacks the mirror machine - Problems on C-Stellarator - Harold Furth's Ballloon to the Moon paper. Lyman Spitzer quits - 5. Dawn on the tokamak - A Soviet claim of success on the T-3 - Britain's laser measuring team goes to Moscow - Princeton construct a tokamak - 6. Building big science - The AEC consolidates control under Robert Hirsch - Pressure for deuterium-tritium fuels - The United States plans a second generation tokamak - 7. Forming the major league - Japan cautiously enter the race - Politics delays a joint European tokamak - 1977. JET is approved - 8. The political plasma - Theoretical stumbling blocks. 1982. TFTR's race to first plasma - 9. The modern fusion lab - The avalanche of data - Sakharov's exile strains cooperation - 10. Plasma physics - The Beam Team on patrol - An appeal for insight - 11. Different directions - Laser fusion at Liverpool lab - The weapons link - Edward Teller advocates a fusion-fission hybrid - The role of radioactivity - 12. Struggling to sell fusion - 1983. Lawrence Lidsky's loud dissent - Fusion's friends : Bob Guccione, Lyndon Larouche, Ansel Adams - 13. In sight of breakeven - 1986 : Supershots arrive - Plans for an international reactor - 14. Fusion's past and future - 1989 : Utah's cold fusion fiasco - Lyman Spitzer and Paul-Henri Rebut look ahead - Notes, glossary, appendices and index minor discoloration on the top of the spine of the dust-jacket, else near fine copy, no markings
Fusion - The Search for Endless Energy
Cambridge University Press Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1991 Book condition, Etat : Très Bon hardcover, under blue illustrated dust-jacket grand In-8 1 vol. - 278 pages
few black in white figures 1st was 1990, reprinted twice in 1991 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Preface, xi, Text, 267 pages - 1. The invention of Dr. Spitzer - Juan Peron's 1951 blunder - The secret Matterhorn project at Princeton - Growing pains on the Stellarator - 2. Igor Kurcharov's revelation - The design of Andrei Sakharov - Zeta's public relations debacle - 3. Friend and rivals - 1958 : The freedom of declassification - Competition in Geneva - Forging the international fraternity - 4. Searching for answers - Lev Artsimovich attacks the mirror machine - Problems on C-Stellarator - Harold Furth's Ballloon to the Moon paper. Lyman Spitzer quits - 5. Dawn on the tokamak - A Soviet claim of success on the T-3 - Britain's laser measuring team goes to Moscow - Princeton construct a tokamak - 6. Building big science - The AEC consolidates control under Robert Hirsch - Pressure for deuterium-tritium fuels - The United States plans a second generation tokamak - 7. Forming the major league - Japan cautiously enter the race - Politics delays a joint European tokamak - 1977. JET is approved - 8. The political plasma - Theoretical stumbling blocks. 1982. TFTR's race to first plasma - 9. The modern fusion lab - The avalanche of data - Sakharov's exile strains cooperation - 10. Plasma physics - The Beam Team on patrol - An appeal for insight - 11. Different directions - Laser fusion at Liverpool lab - The weapons link - Edward Teller advocates a fusion-fission hybrid - The role of radioactivity - 12. Struggling to sell fusion - 1983. Lawrence Lidsky's loud dissent - Fusion's friends : Bob Guccione, Lyndon Larouche, Ansel Adams - 13. In sight of breakeven - 1986 : Supershots arrive - Plans for an international reactor - 14. Fusion's past and future - 1989 : Utah's cold fusion fiasco - Lyman Spitzer and Paul-Henri Rebut look ahead - Notes, glossary, appendices and index fine copy, no markings
