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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Sun on Earth
  name:
    name part: Prichett, Harry
    name part: (Narrator)
    role:
      role term: nrt
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Documentaries and Factual Films
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Documentaires.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: fr
    place:
      place term: Marseilles, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
    publisher: St Thomas Productions
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (50 min.).
  abstract: A huge global increase in energy consumption is inevitable. Renewable energies alone will not satisfy our needs. While nuclear energy is often associated with fission and its dangers, scientists across the world are trying to master its bright side. Nuclear fusion is a safe, clean and unlimited source of energy. But unfortunately, it is incredibly difficult to master. There are different ways of going about it. Three main competing paths are currently being explored : -Tokamaks, which confine a hot plasma at a temperature of one hundred million degrees in a steady state within a magnetic field.-Lasers, which are used like hammers to compress a target and make it explode.-The Z-pinch machine, which attempts to light a nuclear fire by compressing a tiny pellet of gas through an intense X-ray pulse. While the construction of Iter, the international super tokamak, is about to start in Southern France, teams are working flat out to solve physics and engineering problems. Let's follow the team of the Tore Supra tokamak as they develop their machine and install new heating antennas. At the Megajoule Laser, 240 giant lasers are being assembled. They will fire a target in a 30-feet diameter metal sphere. Everything must be immaculately clean as a speck of dust could burn and ruin extremely costly equipment. In the Sandia laboratories, as the entire Z-machine has just been modernized to double its power, the team is already looking towards the future. In collaboration with Russia, revolutionary components are being tested. Putting their rivalries aside, all these scientists share their knowledge of plasma, the fourth state of matter after its gaseous phase. Only when the secrets of plasma are mastered will the gates to fusion open.
  target audience: general
  note: by Jacques Bedel.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed Dec. 23, 2013).
  note: This edition in English.
  subject:
    topic: Renewable energy sources
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear fusion
  subject:
    topic: Renewable Energy
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear Fusion
  subject:
    topic: Énergies renouvelables
  subject:
    topic: Fusion nucléaire
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear fusion
  subject:
    topic: Renewable energy sources
  classification: 333.88094912
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Environmental Studies in Video
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 131223
    record change date: 20241201225604.3
    record identifier: in00005537597
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng