Challenge to plasma fusion

Kitsunezaki, Akio; Yoshikawa, Shoichi*

This book explains the recent progress of fusion research mainly on those of tokamaks, and contribute to the public information on fusion R&D. Researches on herical devices and inertial fusion are also briefly described. Consisits of 20 chapters: What is high temperature plasma ? / Current hole / Fusion power generaation / plasma and magnetic field / plasma confinement / particle and heat flow by copllision / heat flow by plasma fluctuation / heat flow by radiation / plasma heating / drive plasma current / plasma diagnostics / plasma and vacuum vessel / heat insulating layer / stellalater / inertial confinement / to fusion reactor / international cooperation / safety of fusion / special use of fusion reactor / future prospects / The contents are consistent with directions and discuusions in committees.