Fundamentals of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

This new book (NIFS-PROC-88) is the revised edition of the former English publication NIFS-PROC-48 “Fundamentals of Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion” (2000) by Kenro Miyamoto. A new age of fusion research has been opened in the last decade. The ITER Project has officially started. Intensive research into Zonal Flows has improved the understanding of confinement physics. This new book includes those new understandings. 

 The famous textbook “Plasma Physics for Controlled Nuclear Fusion” by K. Miyamoto was first published in 1976 in Japanese and then translated into English. It was the first comprehensive textbook on fusion plasma physics. Many scientists and engineers in fusion research were educated by studying this textbook over the following 20 years. In the meantime, plasma physics has been continuously refined through experimental and theoretical research. The National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), which has a graduate course as a part of the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai), had asked Professor Miyamoto to publish his revised textbook from NIFS, and he accepted the proposal. It was NIFS-PROC-48, which has gained a good reputation from all over the world. In 2010 “Plasma Physics for Nuclear Fusion” by K. Miyamoto (NIFS-PROC-80 in Japanese) was published including new understandings in recent years. This new book (NIFS-PROC-88) is the English translation of NIFS-PROC-80 as well as the revised edition of NIFS-PROC-48.

 We hope that this new textbook will be widely used for education and research in plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion all over the world.