Dolan's Fusion Book free online, Miley class, ICC

[mheslep]

T.J. Dolan, "Fusion Research"
I did a quick search through the archive and found no mention of Dolan so I trust this isn't old news. T.J. Dolan's entire ~900 pg 1982 fusion bible "Fusion Research" is free online. My take is that it's a wonderfully comprehensive reference for all us, broken into 3 volumes: principles, experiments, and diagnostics.
http://www.fusionnow.org/dolan.html

Miley/ Dolan Class
Miley and Dolan are running an undergrad. class this Spring U. Illinois; the course website is loaded w/ good references & HW solutions.
http://npre421.ne.uiuc.edu/

ICC
I was pleased to see this conference, "Innovative Confinement Concepts" has been rotating around the US since '02 at least. Essentially its subject matter is "anything but Tokamaks.
http://www.iccworkshops.org/conferences.php
Then in checking out the attendees, I was amazed at the representation - ~50-100 presenters including all the major labs. Id assumed every fusion PhD in the country was moving to France. There's some very nice outside the box thinking here, e.g.:
http://www.iccworkshops.org/icc2006/proceedings.php

Falstaff

[Donald McKinley]

Thanks for this excellent resource. I already found one interesting tidbit I have been looking for pg 371 which suggests that the maximum power density for their particular fuel (I think it includes tritium) occurs at a temp of about 13Kv. This would of course probably be different than D+D.

My first attempts will try to find the equivalent Temp for the D+D reaction and try all of my tweaking right in the middle of the max Power Density Temp.

Don

[Richard Hull]

I would think that the maximum power density is a function of the specific MACHINE and not a fuel.

D-T is far easier to fuse than D-D. A stock thermal machine would be hard pressed to do any significant D-D fusion at all.

This is why the highly radioactive tritium is the preferred partner to D in thermal machines. It is about the only thing they can work with in the current iterations.

D-T peaks very sharply at 100kev, while D-D has a broad peak at about 250kev where little more is to be gained by further increases.

Richard Hull