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Going Nuclear: Notes from the officially unofficial book tour
I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
Akio Sagara, Yasuji Kozaki, Masahiro Tanaka, Takuya Goto
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 1 | July 2011 | Pages 3-10
Plenary | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-348
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After reasonably long-term scientific efforts, the time is coming for steady-state burning plasma in the operation of the ITER, and complementary research on other large-scale devices. For fusion energy reactors, however, the realization of steady-state burning plasma is not a goal for fusion technology development. Rather, we finally initiated fusion technology development aimed at establishing a steady-state burning system and steady-state fuel supply. This paper discusses strategies for these two issues, based on history and present knowledge.