Life at the center of the energy crisis
Subtitle: a technologist's search for a black swan
By: George H. Miley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Hackensack, New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9789814436489
Subjects: Nuclear engineers; Research; Nuclear energy; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early days and searching for a starting path; title: Burnable poison control for nuclear submarine reactors; title: Nuclear pulse propagation and fission reactor kinetics; title: Nuclear pumped laser (NPL) research; title: Direct electron beam pumped laser; title: Advanced lasers; title: Alpha particle effects in thermonuclear fusion devices; title: Alternate fusion concepts; title: Advanced fuel fusion and direct energy conversion; title: Inertial confinement fusion (ICF); title: Inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) fusion; title: Low energy nuclear reactions (LENR); title: Hydrogen economy and fuel cells; title: Fusion propulsion and space colonization; title: Nuclear batteries; title: Computation and theory; title: Nuclear power plant safety and the Illinois low-level waste site; title: Teaching, education, and university administration; title: Creation of a small company, NPL Associates, Inc; title: Where am I in the search? What have I found?; title: Concluding comments.