Fusion Plasma Physics

Professor Stacey received his PhD in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966. He then worked in naval reactor design at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and led the fast reactor theory and computations and the fusion research programs at Argonne National Laboratory. In 1977, he became Callaway Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he has been teaching and performing research in reactor physics and plasma physics. He is the author of six books and about 250 research papers. He led the international INTOR Workshop which defined the design features and R&D needs for the first fusion experimental reactor, for which he received the US Dept. of Energy Distinguished Associate Award. Professor Stacey is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society and of the American Physical Society and is the recipient of, among other awards, the Seaborg Award for Nuclear Research and the Wigner Reactor Physics Award from the American Nuclear Society.

1. Basic Physics.
2. Motion of Charged Particles.
3. Magnetic Confinement.
4. Kinetic Theory.
5. Fluid Theory.
6. Plasma Equilibria.
7. Waves.
8. Instabilities.
9. Neoclassical Transport.
10. Plasma Rotation.
11. Turbulent Transport.
12. Heating and Current Drive.
13. Plasma-Material Interactions.
14. Divertors.
15. Plasma Edge.
16. Neutral Particle Transport.
17. Power Balance.
18. Operational Limits.
19. Fusion Reactors and Neutron Sources.

Appendices
A: Frequently Used Physical Constants.
B: Dimensions and Units.
C: Vector Calculus.
D: Curvilinear Coordinates.
E: Plasma Formulas.
F: Further Reading.
G: Attributions.

"This revised and enlarged second edition of the popular textbook and reference contains comprehensive treatments of both the established foundations of magnetic fusion plasma physics and of the newly developing areas of active research." ( ETDE Energy Database , 1 November 2012)