FPN14-08

Recent Books, Book Reviews, Etc.

March 8, 2014

Tom Dolan has updated his book, Magnetic Fusion Technology,first published by Pergamon Press in 1982 and now published by Springer http://www.springer.com The book (ISBN 978-1-4471-5556-0) describes the technologies that are required for successful development of fusion power plants using magnetic fields.

Bill Stacey and Friedrich Wagner have published articles in the recently issued Encyclopedia of Nuclear Physics and its Applications (Wiley: http://www.wiley.com), ISBN-978-3-527-40742-2. Stacey's article is titled "The Physics of Nuclear Power from Fission and Fusion". Wagners' is titled "Fusion Energy by Magnetic Confinement".

Physics Today (March 2014) has published a book review by David Crandall of two books; Search for the Ultimate Energy Source, written by Stephen O. Dean and A Piece of the Sun, written by Daniel Clery. A link to the review is at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2312

A lengthy article entitled "A Star in a Bottle" by Raffi Katchadourian was published in the March New Yorker magazine. The article is also posted at: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/03/03/140303fa_fact_khatchadourian Katchadourian also posted a blog entitled "How to Fix ITER" at: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/02/how-to-fix-iter.html