FEASIBILITY OF FUSION POWER PLANTS BASED ON CONTROLLED NUCLEAR FUSION

NE 602

Special Topics in Reactor Engineering.

NE 550

Analysis of nuclear systems for the production of useful power. Emphasis: thermodynamic cycles, reactor types, coupling of reactor and power plant, design synthesis, and plant economics.

ECE/NE/PHYSICS 527

Principles of magnetic confinement and heating of plasmas for controlled thermonuclear fusion: magnetic field structures, single particle orbits, equilibrium, stability, collisions, transport, heating, modeling and diagnostics. Discussion of current leading confinement concepts: tokamaks, tandem mirrors, stellarators, reversed field pinches, etc.

NE 412

Reactor design projects, reactor hazards, economics.

NE 526

Provides a background in the techniques for creating, exciting, and measuring the properties of lab plasmas and using the associated apparatus.