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Wisconsin lawmakers push nuclear support
A joint resolution under consideration in the Wisconsin legislature aims to declare and promote the state’s support for nuclear power and willingness to deploy additional sources.
M. Kikuchi, D. J. Campbell
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 3 | April 2011 | Pages 440-468
Lecture | Fourth ITER International Summer School (IISS2010) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11689
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The ITER project is an important step toward fusion energy utilization for human beings. Fundamental understanding of physics is quite important, as well as understanding of tokamak systems and plasma control. In this lecture, given at the 4th ITER International Summer School, we give an introduction to tokamak research on fusion energy and ITER in light of the main theme of this school, plasma control, and we present some examples to illustrate the importance of physics by showing some physics elements underlying research toward steady-state operation of reactor-relevant tokamak plasmas.