Project Sherwood: Orientation Lectures presented at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, November-December, 1955 - Chap. I. Nuclear Fusion and the Energy Resources of the Earth
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Project Sherwood is the official name for the American project which has as its objective the controlled release of energy from nuclear fusion. Major research efforts in this field are being carried out at Princeton, Los Alamos, and Livermore. Smaller scale efforts are underway at Oak Ridge and at New York University. The essential features of the problems involved will be described in the lectures to follow. In its utmost simplicity, however, it might be described as the problem of containing and controlling a gas at temperatures comparable to those of the sun for a time long enough to achieve sizeable nuclear reactions. The three major research centers named above are working on specific schemes for a device. Oak Ridge and NYU are concerned more with fundamental research and development. Before considering the possible schemes for a Sherwood device, it is probably most sensible to look at the role which fusion (or thermonuclear) energy would play in the over-all resources of this earth.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
- OSTI ID:
- 1067484
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL-CF--56-8-140-Chap.I
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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