New textbook on fusion energy

Jeff Freidberg, Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, has published a new textbook, "Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy". The book is based on a series of lecture notes from graduate courses in plasma physics and fusion energy at MIT. The 671 page text is published by Cambridge University Press. Freidberg states, in the Preface, "it is my hope that the book will help educate the next generation of fusion researchers, an important goal in view of the international decision to build ITER, the world's first reactor-scale, burning plasma experiment."