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Confinement Systems for Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion

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An increase on energy demands in our today’s life going forward to the future has forced us to look into alternative production of energy in a clean way, along the nuclear fission and fossil fuel way of producing energy. Scientists are suggesting controlled thermonuclear fusion reaction as an alternative way of generating energy, either via magnetic confinement or inertial confinement of plasma to generate heat for producing steam and as a result electricity to meet such increase on energy demand. Each of these approaches has their own technical and scientific challenges, which scientists need to overcome. This chapter talks about way of confining plasma and the systems of the confinement, which are able to impose a controlled way of thermonuclear fusion reaction for this purpose.

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Zohuri, B. (2017). Confinement Systems for Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion. In: Magnetic Confinement Fusion Driven Thermonuclear Energy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51177-1_3

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