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The Chemistry of Fusion Technology

Proceedings of a Symposium on the Role of Chemistry in the Development of Controlled Fusion, an American Chemical Society Symposium, held in Boston, Massachusetts, April 1972

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1972

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Editors:
  1. Dieter M. Gruen

    1. Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, USA

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Table of contents (10 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Fusion Energy and the Future

    • William C. Gough
    Pages 1-50

  3. Tritium Breeding and Direct Energy Conversion

    • Joseph D. Lee
    Pages 51-90

  4. A Review of the Chemical, Physical, and Thermal Properties of Lithium that are Related to its Use in Fusion Reactors

    • E. J. Cairns, F. A. Cafasso, V. A. Maroni
    Pages 91-160

  5. Molten salts as Blanket Fluids in Controlled Fusion Reactors

    • W. R. Grimes, Stanley Cantor
    Pages 161-190

  6. Fusion Reactor Fuel Processing

    • Ernest F. Johnson
    Pages 191-214

  7. Chemical Effects of Plasma Interactions with Thermonuclear Reactor Surfaces

    • Dieter M. Gruen
    Pages 215-239

  8. Diffusion and Permeation of Hydrogen Isotopes in Fusion Reactors: a Survey

    • Robert E. Stickney
    Pages 241-319

  9. Condensed Phase Metal-Hydrogen Systems and their Role in Controlled Fusion Reactors

    • G. G. Libowitz
    Pages 321-337

  10. Chemical Aspects of New Superconducting Materials and Fabrication Techniques

    • Melvin G. Bowman
    Pages 339-358

  11. Experiments Leading to Laser Induced Fusionx

    • Moshe J. Lubin
    Pages 359-384

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 385-394
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Nuclear energy obtained from thermonuclear fusion of light nuclei is a goal to which an increasing world-wide effort is being committed. The demands on energy reserves and resources are continually increasing as ever more coun­ tries achieve modern industrial status. All projections agree that conventional means of energy production must be supplemented and indeed supplanted by new methods. Only the date at which the transition becomes imperative is subject to debate. The promise of fusion energy ultimately to pro­ vide a clean, cheap, dependable and potentially inexhaustible energy source augurs well for the future of the human race. If there were illusions at the start of the quest for controlled thermonuclear power that solutions would be easily found, the past two decades have dlspelled them. Unwarranted optimism has been replaced by a realistic recognition of the immense scientific and technological challenges that arise in bringing about practical fusion energy. Broadly speaking, problems can be put into two categories--those having to do with heating the fuel to thermonuclear temperatures at high enough particle densities and for sufficiently long confine­ ment times to yield a net power return and those having to do with the actual construction of a power producing fusion reactor.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, USA

    Dieter M. Gruen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Chemistry of Fusion Technology

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Role of Chemistry in the Development of Controlled Fusion, an American Chemical Society Symposium, held in Boston, Massachusetts, April 1972

  • Editors: Dieter M. Gruen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4595-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1972

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-4597-8Published: 10 January 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-4595-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 394

  • Topics: Nuclear Energy

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