Life at the center of the energy crisis : a technologist's search for a black swan / / George H. Miley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:xix, 213 p. :; ill., ports.
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245 1 0 |a Life at the center of the energy crisis  |h [electronic resource] :  |b a technologist's search for a black swan /  |c George H. Miley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. 
260 |a [Hackensack] N.J. :  |b World Scientific,  |c c2013. 
300 |a xix, 213 p. :  |b ill., ports. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Early days and searching for a starting path -- Burnable poison control for nuclear submarine reactors -- Nuclear pulse propagation and fission reactor kinetics -- Nuclear pumped laser (NPL) research -- Direct electron beam pumped laser -- Advanced lasers -- Alpha particle effects in thermonuclear fusion devices -- Alternate fusion concepts -- Advanced fuel fusion and direct energy conversion -- Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) -- Inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) fusion -- Low energy nuclear reactions (LENR) -- Hydrogen economy and fuel cells -- Fusion propulsion and space colonization -- Nuclear batteries -- Computation and theory -- Nuclear power plant safety board and Illinois low-level waste site -- Teaching, education, and university administration -- Creation of a small company, NPL Associates, Inc -- Where am I in the search? What have I found? -- Concluding comments. 
533 |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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