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Fusion - The Search for Endless Energy (Paperback, New ed)
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Fusion - The Search for Endless Energy (Paperback, New ed)
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Fusion: The Search For Endless Energy is the story of the
international race to build an atomic fusion reactor and of the
fraternity of scientists whose mission to create safe, clean,
inexhaustible energy from the elements of seawater, transcended
political boundaries. These scientists included such greats as
Andrei Sakharov and Edward Teller. The book abounds with
fascinating anecdotes about fusion's rocky path: the spurious claim
by Argentine dictator Juan Peron in 1951 that his nation had built
a working fusion reactor; the rush by the United States to drop
secrecy and publicize its fusion work as a propaganda offensive
after the Russian success with Sputnik; the fortune the Penthouse
magazine publisher Bob Guccione sank into an unconventional fusion
device; the skepticism that met an assertion by two University of
Utah chemists in 1989 that they had created "cold fusion" in a
bottle. Aimed at a general audience, the book describes the
scientific basis of controlled fusion--the fusing of atomic nuclei,
under conditions hotter than the sun, to release energy. Using
personal recollections of scientists involved, the book traces the
history of this little known international race that began during
the Cold War in secret laboratories in the U.S., Great Britain, and
the Soviet Union, and evolved into an astonishingly open
collaboration between East and West.
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