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Life at the center of the energy crisis [electronic resource] : a technologist's search for a black swan / George H. Miley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Author
Miley, George H. (George Hunter), 1933-
Published
Hackensack, New Jersey : World Scientific, [2013]
Physical Description
xix, 213 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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Contents
Early days and searching for a starting path -- Burnable poison control for nuclear submarine reactors -- Nuclear pulse propagation and fission reactor kinetics -- Nuclear pumped laser (NPL) research -- Direct electron beam pumped laser -- Advanced lasers -- Alpha particle effects in thermonuclear fusion devices -- Alternate fusion concepts -- Advanced fuel fusion and direct energy conversion -- Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) -- Inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) fusion -- Low energy nuclear reactions (LENR) -- Hydrogen economy and fuel cells -- Fusion propulsion and space colonization -- Nuclear batteries -- Computation and theory -- Nuclear power plant safety and the Illinois low-level waste site -- Teaching, education, and university administration -- Creation of a small company, NPL Associates, Inc -- Where am I in the search? What have I found? -- Concluding comments.
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ISBN
9789814436489 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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