Magnetic Fusion: The DOE Fusion Energy Sciences Program (CRS Report for Congress)
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| Release Date |
Revised Jan. 15, 2002 |
| Report Number |
IB91039 |
| Authors |
Richard E. Rowberg, Science Policy Research Division |
| Source Agency |
Congressional Research Service |
| Older Revisions |
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Summary:
For more than 40 years, the U.S. has been trying to harness the energy source of the hydrogen bomb to produce electricity. Controlling fusion, the nuclear reaction that powers the sun, requires confining and heating deuterium and tritium nuclei to the point where they will collide producing nuclear energy in a sustained, regulated way. One path to this goal, called magnetic fusion energy, is to use very strong magnetic fields to confine a deuterium and tritium plasma while heating it to fusion temperatures.
