Should Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear power... 1 Hours 32 Minutes 43 Seconds
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googletechtalks
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October 8, 2007
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December 2, 2008
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1 Hours 32 Minutes 43 Seconds
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Google Tech Talks
November 9, 2006
ABSTRACT
This is not your father's fusion reactor! Forget everything you know about conventional thinking on nuclear fusion: high-temperature plasmas, steam turbines, neutron radiation and even nuclear waste are a thing of the past. Goodbye thermonuclear fusion; hello inertial electrostatic confinement fusion (IEC), an old idea that's been made new. While the international community debates the fate of the politically-turmoiled $12 billion ITER (an experimental thermonuclear reactor), simple IEC reactors are being built as high-school science fair projects.
Dr. Robert Bussard, former Asst. Director of the Atomic Energy Commission and founder of Energy Matter...