nuclear fusion

Highlights the journey of Taylor Wilson, the youngest person to ever build a working nuclear fusion reactor. Provides insight into how parents and teachers can support high-achieving children, and discusses how our education system fails these gifted students.

Details the history of nuclear fusion and the scientific crusade for fusion energy, and discusses the scientists related to fusion science, which include Andrei Sakharov, Edward Teller, Ronald Richter, and others.

Provides an inside account of the decades-long search for fusion power, introducing the principles of fusion and magnetic fusion research, discussing fusion's potential to provide an environmentally acceptable energy source, and looking at some of the technical breakthroughs that are being explored as a result of fusion.

Describes the process of atomic fusion and explores the dangers and promise of regarding it as a major source of energy in the future.

Discusses the history of fusion power, important research on the subject, and the different types of devices and equipment used in fusion reactors.