Fusion : The Search for Endless Energy

Robin Herman

ISBN 10: 0521024951 / ISBN 13: 9780521024952

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Beschreibung

Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Fusion: The Search For Endless Energy is the story of the international race to build an atomic fusion reactor and of the fraternity of scientists whose mission to create safe, clean, inexhaustible energy from the elements of seawater, transcended political boundaries. These scientists included such greats as Andrei Sakharov and Edward Teller. The book abounds with fascinating anecdotes about fusion's rocky path: the spurious claim by Argentine dictator Juan Peron in 1951 that his nation had built a working fusion reactor; the rush by the United States to drop secrecy and publicize its fusion work as a propaganda offensive after the Russian success with Sputnik; the fortune the Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione sank into an unconventional fusion device; the skepticism that met an assertion by two University of Utah chemists in 1989 that they had created 'cold fusion' in a bottle. Aimed at a general audience, the book describes the scientific basis of controlled fusion--the fusing of atomic nuclei, under conditions hotter than the sun, to release energy. Using personal recollections of scientists involved, the book traces the history of this little known international race that began during the Cold War in secret laboratories in the U.S., Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, and evolved into an astonishingly open collaboration between East and West.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780521024952

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Fusion : The Search for Endless Energy
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0521024951
• ISBN-13: 9780521024952
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

This is the story of the international race to build the first atomic fusion reactor.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robin Herman is currently Assistant Dean for Communications at Harvard School of Public Health.