Fundamentals of Magnetic Thermonuclear Reactor Design

Fundamentals of Magnetic Thermonuclear Reactor Design
Author: Vasilij A. Glukhikh
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2018-05-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0081024711

Fundamentals of Magnetic Thermonuclear Reactor Design is a comprehensive resource on fusion technology and energy systems written by renowned scientists and engineers from the Russian nuclear industry. It brings together a wealth of invaluable experience and knowledge on controlled thermonuclear fusion (CTF) facilities with magnetic plasma confinement – from the first semi-commercial tokamak T-3, to the multi-billion international experimental thermonuclear reactor ITER, now in construction in France. As the INTOR and ITER projects have made an immense contribution in the past few decades, this book focuses on its practical engineering aspects and the basics of technical physics and electrical engineering. Users will gain an understanding of the key ratios between plasma and technical parameters, design streamlining algorithms and engineering solutions. Written by a team of qualified experts who have been involved in the design of thermonuclear reactors for over 50 years Outlines the most important features of the ITER project in France which is building the largest tokamak, including the design, material selection, safety and economic considerations Includes data on how to design magnetic fusion reactors using CAD tools, along with relevant regulatory documents

Image and Logic

Image and Logic
Author: Peter Galison
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 1002
Release: 1997-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226279176

Engages with the impact of modern technology on experimental physicists. This study reveals how the increasing scale and complexity of apparatus has distanced physicists from the very science which drew them into experimenting, and has fragmented microphysics into different technical traditions.

How is Quantum Field Theory Possible?

How is Quantum Field Theory Possible?
Author: Sunny Y. Auyang
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 289
Release: 1995
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0195093453

How can we know the microscopic world without a measurement theory? What are the general conditions of the world that make possible such knowledge? What are the presuppositions of physical theories? This book includes an analysis of quantum field theory, and quantum mechanics and interacting systems are addressed in a unified framework.

The Principles of Cloud-Chamber Technique

The Principles of Cloud-Chamber Technique
Author: J. G. Wilson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2014-06-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1107680891

Originally published in 1951, this book examines the potential of the cloud chamber as an instrument of precise measurement.

The Particle Odyssey

The Particle Odyssey
Author: Frank Close
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2004-11-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780198609438

1. The world of particle physics 2. Voyage into the atom 3. The structure of the atom 4. The extraterrestrials 5. The cosmic rain 6. The challenge of the big machines 7. The particle explosion 8. Colliders and image chambers 9. From charm to top 10. The 'whys' of particle physics 11. Futureclash 12. Particles at work Table of particles Further reading/acknowledgements Picture credits Index