Prospects for economic fusion electricity

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 63-64, Issue , 2002, Pages 25-33

  Cook, Ian ^a   Miller, R L ^b   Ward, D J ^a  

^a CULHAM SCIENCE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Electricity; Fusion; Power generation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

FUSION ELECTRICITY;

POWER GENERATION;

EID: 0036904984     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-3796(02)00286-7     Document Type: Article

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