TY - BOOK ID - 135369687 TI - The quest for a fusion energy reactor : an insider's account of the INTOR Workshop PY - 2010 SN - 1282706888 9786612706882 0199750882 9780199750887 9780199733842 0190453591 PB - New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Fusion reactors KW - Engineering test reactors KW - Tokamaks. KW - lemac KW - Design and construction. KW - Research KW - International cooperation. KW - International Tokamak Reactor Workshop. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135369687 AB - At the Geneva Superpower Summit in November 1985, Secretary of the former Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan agreed to pursue an international effort to develop fusion energy for peaceful purposes. At a time when tension between these cold war nations was very high, how were these leaders able to come together to work towards making nuclear fusion a feasible energy source? The Quest for a Fusion Energy Reactor is the story of the INTOR Workshop (INternational TOkamak Reactor) which brought together scientists and engineers from Europe, Japan, the United States, and th ER -