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Title: The Path to Magnetic Fusion Energy

Abstract

When the possibility of fusion as an energy source for electricity generation was realized in the 1950s, understanding of the plasma state was primitive. The fusion goal has been paced by, and has stimulated, the development of plasma physics. Our understanding of complex, nonlinear processes in plasmas is now mature. We can routinely produce and manipulate 100 million degree plasmas with remarkable finesse, and we can identify a path to commercial fusion power. The international experiment, ITER, will create a burning (self-sustained) plasma and produce 500 MW of thermal fusion power. This talk will summarize the progress in fusion research to date, and the remaining steps to fusion power.

Authors:
 [1]
  1. PPPL
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
FNAL (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States))
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1013892
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Multimedia
Resource Relation:
Conference: Fermilab Colloquia, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batvia, Illinois (United States), presented on May 04, 2011
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY SOURCES; PHYSICS; PLASMA; THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS

Citation Formats

Prager, Stewart. The Path to Magnetic Fusion Energy. United States: N. p., 2011. Web.
Prager, Stewart. The Path to Magnetic Fusion Energy. United States.
Prager, Stewart. 2011. "The Path to Magnetic Fusion Energy". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1013892.
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