![]() ![]() He is particularly interested in the two or three times that scientists announced they had achieved fusion by experiments that other scientists then showed were wrong (think of the Pons and Fleischman Cold Fusion debacle in the late eighties). As the author shows, this belief has repeatedly been shown to be erroneous, or at least hugely optimistic. The red thread through this book is the belief that lab- or reactor-generated fusion could be a cheap and reliable source of energy, a clean alternative to the dangers of the classic nuclear reactors. This book focuses on fission's lesser-known cousin, nuclear fusion, the process that generates the energy we receive from the sun and other stars. ![]() There are plenty of books about the discovery of radioactivity, the Manhattan project, the atomic bomb and nuclear fission in general. ![]()
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