Nuclear Fusion

<div>Chapter 1 Introduction</div><div>Fusion as an energy source</div><div>World energy supply and demand</div><div>Availability of fusion fuel</div><div>Risk factors for energy sources:</div><div>Comparative risks of fusion to other energy technologies</div><div>Prospects for a fusion energy technology</div><div>Historical background</div><div><br></div><div></div><div>Chapter 2 Fusion nuclear reactions</div><div>Cross sections and reactivity</div><div>Resonant and non-resonant fusion reactions</div><div>Reactivity models for maxwellian distributions</div><div>Reactivity in beam-maxwellian systems</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 3 Energy gain and loss mechanisms in plasmas and reactors</div><div>Charged particle heating</div><div>Ohmic heating</div><div>External heating methods</div><div>Radiation loss:</div><div>Charge Exchange</div><div>Reactor energy balance</div><div>Lawson criterion and Q</div><div>Pulsed vs. steady state energy balance</div><div>Thermal conversion efficiency</div><div>Blankets</div><div><br></div><div></div><div>Chapter 4 Magnetic Confinement</div><div>MHD fluid equations</div><div>Pressure balance</div><div>Magnetic pressure concept and </div><div>Z pinch: Bennett pinch theorem</div><div>Instabilities in Z pinch</div><div>Perhapsatron</div><div>Tokamak configuration</div><div>Grad-Shafranov equation</div><div>Numerical solutions<div>Effect of flow on equilibrium</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 5 MHD instabilities&nbsp;</div><div>Ideal MHD</div><div>Energy Principle</div><div>Interchange instability</div><div>Kink and sausage &nbsp;instability</div><div>Wesson diagram for tokamak stability</div><div>Ballooning modes</div><div>Numerical solutions</div><div>Resistive MHD</div><div>Magnetic Islands</div><div>’ and Rutherford growth</div><div>Magnetic stochasticity</div><div><br></div>" theory="" and="" transport<div>Vlasov equation</div><div>Collision operators&nbsp;</div><div>Braginskii transport equations</div><div>Timescale hierarchy for electrons and ions</div><div>Beam slowing down&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 7 Neoclassical effects</div><div>Pfirsch-Schluter regime</div><div>Trapped particles<div>Bootstrap current</div><div>Neoclassical tearing mode</div><div>ELMs and MARFEs</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 8 Waves in plasma</div><div>Cold plasma dispersion relation: CMA diagram</div><div>Cutoffs and resonances</div><div>Warm plasma waves</div><div>WKB approximation</div><div>Ray tracing and accessibility</div><div>Laser-plasma interactions</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 9 RF heating in magnetic fusion devices</div><div>Ion cyclotron heating: sources, antennas, transmission lines</div><div>Lower hybrid heating: sources, antennas, transmission lines</div><div>Electron cyclotron heating: sources, antennas, transmission linesIon Bernstein waves and high harmonic fast waves</div><div>RF current drive</div><div>Runaway electrons</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 10 Neutral beam injection</div><div>Positive and negative ion sources</div><div>Neutralization efficiency</div><div>Child-Langmuir law</div><div>Beam optics calculations</div><div>High voltage breakdown issues</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 11 Inertial confinement&nbsp;</div><div>Direct vs. indirect drive</div><div>Lasers, optics, frequency doubling and tripling</div><div>Hohlraum design</div><div>Capsule hydrodynamics</div><div>Rayleigh-Taylor instability</div><div>Electron preheat and mix</div><div>Heavy ion drivers</div><div>Fast ignition</div><div>Numerical simulations</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 12 Magnets</div><div>Superconductivity</div><div>Thermal stability</div><div>Stress calculations</div><div>Bending moments and torsional stability</div><div>Radiation damage</div><br></div><div>Chapter 13 Tritium</div><div>Health issues: HTO vs. HT</div><div>Sievert’s law and leakage calculations</div><div>H-D-T separation processes</div><div>Availability and cost</div><div>He-3 recovery</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 14 Materials issues</div><div>First wall: MFE vs. IFE</div><div>Thermal shock and fatigue</div><div>Thermal stress calculations</div><div>Coolant compatibility</div><div>Plasma-wall interaction</div><div>Radiation damage: dpa cross sections and He production</div><div>Embrittlement, void swelling, and creep</div><div>Composite materials</div><div>Divertor and limiter design</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 15 Vacuum systems</div><div>Cryogenics</div><div>Cryopumps</div><div>Scroll pumps</div><div>Conductance calculations</div><div>Transient response of vacuum systems</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 16 Blankets</div><div>Li vs. LiPb vs. LiO&nbsp;</div><div>Tritium removal</div><div>Fire safety</div>ressure<div>Fission hybrid decay heat issues</div><div><br><div><div>Chapter 17 Economics and Sustainability</div><div>The cost of money</div><div>Material availability</div><div>Plant lifetime consideration</div><div>Site licenses</div><div>Accident mitigation&nbsp;<div>Is it “Green?”</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>