Presentations from a Fusion Power Associates symposium, The Fusion Energy Option, are summarized. The topics include perspectives on fossil fuel reserves, fusion as a source for hydrogen production, status and plans for the development of inertial fusion, planning for the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, status and promise of alternate approaches to fusion and the need for R&D now on fusion technologies.
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Dean, S.O. The Fusion Energy Option. J Fusion Energ 23, 111–120 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10894-005-3473-2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10894-005-3473-2