{"id":739534,"date":"2013-02-20T11:20:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T16:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=6bd1f98dcac7cb77ebb01d3f8606cad9"},"modified":"2013-02-20T11:20:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T16:20:51","slug":"new-from-nap-2013-02-20-112033","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/739534","title":{"rendered":"New From NAP 2013-02-20 11:20:33"},"content":{"rendered":"\n      \n        <p><strong>Prepublication Now Available<\/strong><\/p>\n        <p>The potential for using fusion energy to produce commercial electric power was first explored in the 1950s. Harnessing fusion energy offers the prospect of a nearly carbon-free energy source with a virtually unlimited supply of fuel. Unlike nuclear fission plants, appropriately designed fusion power plants would not produce the large amounts of high-level nuclear waste that requires long-term disposal. Due to these prospects, many nations have initiated research and development (R&D) programs aimed at developing fusion as an energy source. Two R&D approaches are being explored: magnetic fusion energy (MFE) and inertial fusion energy (IFE).<\/p> <p><em>An Assessment of the Prospects for Inertial Fusion Energy <\/em>describes and assesses the current status of IFE research in the United States; compares the various technical approaches to IFE; and identifies the scientific and engineering challenges associated with developing inertial confinement fusion (ICF) in particular as an energy source. It also provides guidance on an R&D roadmap at the conceptual level for a national program focusing on the design and construction of an inertial fusion energy demonstration plant.<\/p>        <p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nap.edu\/catalog.php?record_id=18289\">Read the full report<\/a>]<\/p>        <p><strong>Topics:<\/strong> <a href='http:\/\/www.nap.edu\/topics.php?id=283'>Energy and Energy Conservation<\/a> | <a href='http:\/\/www.nap.edu\/topics.php?id=284'>Engineering and Technology<\/a> | <a href='http:\/\/www.nap.edu\/topics.php?id=290'>Math, Chemistry and Physics<\/a><\/p><br \/>\n      \n    <img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/nap\/new\/~4\/vWGwcGjZA4o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prepublication Now Available The potential for using fusion energy to produce commercial electric power was first explored in the 1950s. Harnessing fusion energy offers the prospect of a nearly carbon-free energy source with a virtually unlimited supply of fuel. Unlike nuclear fission plants, appropriately designed fusion power plants would not produce the large amounts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36nY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}