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Nuclear Physics Explained: Season 1

1x20 Nuclear Fusion: Obstacles and Achievements
TV-PG

  • 2018-04-27T00:00:00Z on The Great Courses
  • 29m
  • Special Interest
The holy grail of nuclear power is fusion, which has been tantalizingly out of reach for decades. Learn why fusion power is so desirable and so difficult to achieve. Study the different strategies for attaining a contained, self-sustaining thermonuclear reaction, focusing on the tokamak, which confines a high-temperature plasma in a powerful toroidal magnetic field.
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