Overview

How to achieve unlimited, safe, clean and low-cost energy by laser- or beam-driven inertial nuclear fusion has preoccupied all winners of the Edward Teller Medal since its inception in 1991. This book presents their findings, meeting discussions, and personal insights from Edward Teller himself. Expect discussion of important advances anticipated in the future such as multi-billion dollar fusion research projects (NIF), and new schemes such as the petawatt-picosecond laser-plasma interactions evoking new physics and coupling mechanisms.For the first time, laser technology of the new century is providing the very short and extremely intense energetic pulses needed for fusion energy from next generation power stations, which produce energy at several times lower cost than any other source. The long-sought dream to directly ignite frozen heavy hydrogen for controlled use is close to being realized. Years of research on plasmas and lasers carried out worldwide in highly sophisticated experiments is summarized. The coverage begins with the work of John Nuckolls and Nobel Laureate Nikolai Basov and leads to the new scheme of plasma block acceleration via the nonlinear ponderomotive force. Edward Teller Lectures is one of the first guides to these new developments.

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Author:   Heinrich Hora (Univ Of New South Wales, Australia) ,  George H Miley (Univ Of Illinois At Urbana-champaign, Usa)
Publisher:   Imperial College Press
Imprint:   Imperial College Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   0.785kg
ISBN:  

9781860944680

ISBN 10:   186094468
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   29 June 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

# Comments on the History and Prospects for Inertial Confinement Fusion (N G Basov) # Laser Fusion Research in 30 Years: Lecture of Edward Teller Awardee (C Yamanaka) # New Basic Physics Derived from Laser Plasma Interaction (H Hora) # The Edward Teller Medal Lecture: The Evolution Toward Indirect Drive and Two Decades of Progress Toward ICF Ignition and Burn (J D Lindl) # Views on Inertial Fusion Energy Development (S Nakai) # Path to Ignition: US Indirect Target Physics (M Cray & E M Campbell) # 1995 Edward Teller Lecture: Patience and Optimism (G H Miley) # The Edward Teller Medal Lecture: High Intensity Lasers and the Road to Ignition (M H Key) # Prospects for High-Grain, High Yield NIF Targets Driven by 2 (Green) Light (L J Suter et al.) # Hydrodynamic Instability, Integrated Code, Laboratory Astrophysics and Astrophysics (H Takabe) # and other papers.

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"""... the presentation of inertial presented in this book is most valuable for all who are actively engaged in this field or follow it with great interest ..."" Laser and Particle Beams"

... the presentation of inertial presented in this book is most valuable for all who are actively engaged in this field or follow it with great interest ... Laser and Particle Beams

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