Turbulence, Fusion and Clean Energy

Magazine article, 2013

In 1926 Sir Arthur Eddington published his treatise The Internal Constitution of the Stars, the first comprehensive work on fusion, and with its publication the vision of fusion as a power source was kindled. Since then, taming the nuclear furnace and bringing the power of the Sun to Earth has been the ambition of generations of physicists and engineers. With the ITER experiment (www.iter.org) planned for 2020, the goal seems within reach, appropriately around the centennial of Sir Arthur’s theory.