The Energy Challenge and the Case for Fusion
Chris Llewellyn Smith, Vice President of the Royal Society and Visiting Professor at Oxford, discusses the advantages of fusion power for meeting the future energy needs of a still growing and modernizing world population with special emphasis on the technical challenges of tokamak fusion facilities, in particular the ITER project.
| The Energy Challenge and the Case for Fusion |
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