22.012 | Spring 2006 | Undergraduate

Seminar: Fusion and Plasma Physics

Lecture Notes

fus_react_parker.pdf

Description:

This file includes the following topics: A Fusion Reactor, abundant fuel supply, comparison of fission and fusion: efficiently converts mass to energy, fusion reactors, contibution to air pollution or global warming, uncontrolled energy release, negligible quantities of high-level waste, why aren’t fusion reactors build, the fusion process, fusion power generation, fusion energy requirements, forces of fields on plasma, Tokamak coils, and the energy breakeven.

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fus_react_parker.pdf

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Spring 2006
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