{"id":661818,"date":"2013-07-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=7961da4597b6d34c3eacb8e81ed1f221"},"modified":"2013-07-08T16:48:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T20:48:17","slug":"an-assessment-of-the-prospects-for-inertial-fusion-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/661818","title":{"rendered":"An Assessment of the Prospects for Inertial Fusion Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Final Book Now Available<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The potential for using fusion energy to produce commercial electric power was first explored in the 1950s. Harnessing fusion energy offers the prospect of a nearly carbon-free energy source with a virtually unlimited supply of fuel. Unlike nuclear fission plants, appropriately designed fusion power plants would not produce the large amounts of high-level nuclear waste that requires long-term disposal. Due to these prospects, many nations have initiated research and development (R&#038;D) programs aimed at developing fusion as an energy source. Two R&#038;D approaches are being explored: magnetic fusion energy (MFE) and inertial fusion energy (IFE).<\/p>\n<p><em>An Assessment of the Prospects for Inertial Fusion Energy <\/em>describes and assesses the current status of IFE research in the United States; compares the various technical approaches to IFE; and identifies the scientific and engineering challenges associated with developing inertial confinement fusion (ICF) in particular as an energy source. It also provides guidance on an R&#038;D roadmap at the conceptual level for a national program focusing on the design and construction of an inertial fusion energy demonstration plant.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nap.edu\/catalog.php?record_id=18289\">Read the full report<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Topics:<\/strong> <a href='http:\/\/www.nap.edu\/topics.php?id=283'>Energy and Energy Conservation<\/a> | <a href='http:\/\/www.nap.edu\/topics.php?id=284'>Engineering and Technology<\/a> | <a href='http:\/\/www.nap.edu\/topics.php?id=290'>Math, Chemistry and Physics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/nap\/new\/~4\/vWGwcGjZA4o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final Book Now Available The potential for using fusion energy to produce commercial electric power was first explored in the 1950s. Harnessing fusion energy offers the prospect of a nearly carbon-free energy source with a virtually unlimited supply of fuel. Unlike nuclear fission plants, appropriately designed fusion power plants would not produce the large amounts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}