Weston Stacey: 3 books
The Quest for a Fusion Energy Reactor
An Insider's Account of the INTOR Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
At the Geneva Superpower Summit in November 1985, Secretary of the former Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Regan agreed to pursue an international effort to develop fusion energy for peaceful purposes. At a time when tension between these cold war nations was very high, how were...
by Weston M. Stacey
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
This revised and enlarged second edition of the popular textbook and reference contains comprehensive treatments of both the established foundations of magnetic fusion plasma physics and of the newly developing areas of active research. It concludes with a look ahead to fusion power reactors of the...
by Weston M. Stacey
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
The third, revised edition of this popular textbook and reference, which has been translated into Russian and Chinese, expands the comprehensive and balanced coverage of nuclear reactor physics to include recent advances in understanding of this topic.
The first part of the book covers basic reactor...