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Seminar: Fusion and Plasma Physics
Art: Not determined, Figure 6 of Radio-active substances, 1904 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. Kim Molvig
- Term
- Spring 2006
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 16 other files · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 22.012 Seminar: Fusion and Plasma Physics, Spring 2006, Prof. Kim Molvig — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Notes
- Fusion Reactors: The Ultimate Nuclear Power Plant Download
- MHD for Fusion: Where Next? Download
- Fusion without Neutrons Using p-B11 Fuel Download
Assignments
13 files
- “Helium-3 Fusion” Download
- “Ignition of a Confined Plasma” Download
- “ITER Materials and Beyond” Download
- “Levitated Dipole Experiment” Download
- “Why Fusion? The Politics and Policy of Energy in the United States” (PDF 1) Download
- “ITER” Download
- “Stellarators” Download
- “Why Fusion? The Politics and Policy of Energy in the United States” (PDF 2) Download
- This file is a student's work on disruption control explaining feedback control, high Z gas… (disruptions.pdf) Download
- “Inertial Confinement Fusion” Download
- “Pyroelectric Fusion” Download
- “Fast Rides: Uses of Fusion for Space Propulsion Systems” Download
- “Acoustic Inertial Confinement Fusion” Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Nuclear Physics of Fusion
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Lecture 3: Physics of Magnetic Confinement
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Lecture 4: Alcator C-MOD and LDX (Levitated Dipole) Tour
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Lecture 5: Fusion Reactors: The Ultimate Nuclear Power Plant
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Lecture 6: Physics of Fusion Experiments
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Lecture 7: Simulating Basic Plasma Physics with Computers
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Lecture 8: MHD for Fusion: Where Next?
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Lecture 9: Plasma Rockets for Manned Space Missions
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Lecture 10: Fusion without Neutrons using p-B11 Fuel
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Lecture 11: Superconducting Magnets for ITER (International Tokamak Experimental Reactor)
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Lecture 12: Disruptions in Tokamaks
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Lecture 13: Paper Presentations and Discussions
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Lecture 14: Paper Presentations and Discussions (cont.)
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Kim Molvig, 22.012 Seminar: Fusion and Plasma Physics, Spring 2006.
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