21st Century Ultimate Guide to ITER - World's Most Advanced Fusion Reactor Experiment, Burning Plasma, Magnetic Fusion Energy Research Plans (Ringbound and DVD-ROM Set)

This ringbound book and DVD-ROM disc set provides a comprehensive guide to the ITER (Latin for the way ), a major international research project with the goal of demonstrating the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion energy. The fusion power will be up to 10 times greater than the external power delivered to heat the plasma. ITER is designed to be the premier scientific tool for exploring and testing expectations for plasma behavior in the fusion burning plasma regime, wherein the fusion process itself provides the dominant heat source to sustain the plasma temperature. It will provide the scientific basis and plasma control tools needed to move toward the fusion energy goal. The ITER project confronts the grand challenge of creating and understanding a sustained burning plasma for the first time. Distinguishing characteristics of a burning plasma are the high level of interaction between the fusion heating, the resulting energetic particles, and the confinement and stability properties of the plasma. Achieving this strongly interacting burning state requires resolving complex physics issues and integrating new and improved technologies. A clear and comprehensive scientific understanding of the burning plasma state is needed to confidently extrapolate plasma behavior and related technology beyond ITER to a fusion power plant. The project is being designed and built by the ITER partners: the European Union, India, Japan, the People s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, and the United States. The device will be built at Cadarache in southeastern France, with the European Union being the host party. Contents of the ringbound book include a full description of ITER, detailed information on the U.S. contribution, scientific discussions of the plasma science involved in ITER, acronyms and abbreviations associated with the program, glossary, and more. DVD-ROM: The electronic book on DVD-ROM provides an unprecedented encyclopedic collection of documents, official reference books and guides, images, and videos about every conceivable aspect of nuclear fusion technology and research. We believe that this exceptional collection provides the most comprehensive set of government fusion documents ever offered. Programs and topics covered include ITER (formerly known as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) currently under construction in France designed to achieve burning plasmas; NIF - the National Ignition Facility and Photon Science project at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California; the Laser Inertial Fusion Engine (LIFE) concept; research into magnetic fusion energy (MFE) and tokamaks; inertial fusion energy; plasma science; simulation; physics; high energy density physics, FESAC reports; nuclear core design; tritium; remote handling technology; creating predictable high-performance steady-state plasmas; fusion-fission hybrid systems; the history of fusion technology; earlier projects such as AIRES, FIRE, NSTX, NSCX, JET, Z-pinch, TFTR, and many others; plus legacy material from 2002 and earlier. The collection includes nearly 400 PDF files and 14 video files. Nuclear fusion - the process that powers the sun - offers an environmentally benign, intrinsically safe energy source with an abundant supply of low-cost fuel. it is the focus of an international research program, including the ITER fusion collaboration, which involves seven parties representing half the world's population. The realization of fusion power would change the economics and ecology of energy production as profoundly as petroleum exploitation did two centuries ago. The 21st century finds fusion research in a transformed landscape.