Most of this book was written before October 1973. Thus the
statements concerning the energy crisis are now dated, but remain
valid nevertheless. However, the term "energy crisis" is no longer
the unusual new concept it was when the material was written; it
is, rather, a commonplace expression for a condition with which we
are all only too familiar. The purpose of this book is to point out
that the science and technology of laser-induced nuclear fusion are
an extraordinary subject, which in some way not yet completely
clear can solve the problem of gaining a pollution-free and really
inexhaustible supply of inexpensive energy from the heavy hydrogen
(deuterium) atoms found in all terrestrial waters. The concept is
very obvious and very simple: To heat solid deuterium or mixtures
of deuterium and tritium (superheavy hydrogen) by laser pulses so
rapidly that despite the resulting expansion and cooling there
still take place so many nuclear fusion reactions tnat the energy
produced is greater than the laser energy that had to be applied.
Compression of the plasma by the laser radiation itself is a more
sophisticated refinement of the process, but one which at the
present stage of laser cechnology is needed for the rapid
realization of a laser-fusion reactor for power generation. This
concept of compression can also be applied to the development of
completely safe reactors with controlled microexplosions of
laser-compressed fissionable materials such as uranium and even
boron, which fission completely safely into nonradioactive helium
atoms.
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