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Fusion Energy Week begins today
Fusion is riding a surge of attention that began in December 2022 when researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility achieved fusion ignition. The organizers of Fusion Energy Week—a group called the U.S. Fusion Outreach Team—on the other hand, trace fusion development back 100 years to the doctoral research of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who discovered that stars, including our Sun, are mostly made of hydrogen and helium, which in turn led to the understanding that those elements are the “fuel” of potential fusion energy systems on Earth. In recognition of Payne-Gaposchkin’s birthday—May 10—the U.S. Fusion Outreach Team plans to hold a “grassroots celebration of fusion energy” May 6–10, 2024, and annually during the second week of May.
Karl H. Spatschek
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 33 | Number 2 | March 1998 | Pages 50-59
Basic Theory and Fusion Devices | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11946994
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In this overview, the main arguments for a kinetic description of a classical non-relativistic many particle system are reviewed. First, the need and strategy for a kinetic description of plasma particles is discussed. The Vlasov, the Landau-Fokker-Planck, and the Balescu-Lenard equations are presented as the most useful kinetic equations for the particle distribution functions. It is shown that a linearization of the initial value problem can already give interesting insights into the dynamic behaviors. In many cases a reduction to a plasmadynamic (fluid) description is appropriate, and popular truncations are summarized. Finally, the basic methods for a kinetic description of waves are presented. When some wave excitations are driven unstable and the collective motion of particles dominates, the wave-kinetic equations will be the appropriate dynamical equations. It is shown that spectra of the Kolmogorov-Obukhov type are exact stationary solutions of the latter.