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[Ivy Matt]

Here’s a fairly new one for a general audience:

A Piece of the Sun: The Quest for Fusion Energy by Daniel Clery

Published June 27, 2013. Clery was a news editor for [em]Science[/em] magazine who decided to write a book on the history of fusion. He shelved the idea when he heard his former colleague, Charles Seife, was working on a similar project. When he read Seife’s book, however, he decided to go ahead with his project, presumably partly as a response to Seife. I haven’t read Clery’s book yet, but I am interested, although I don’t know to what extent he covers alternative confinement concepts and aneutronic fusion. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find a table of contents or index online.

From Clery’s blog I found a reference to another recent book:

Star Chambers – The Race For Fusion Power by Melanie Windridge

Published September 21, 2012. It’s a very basic introduction to fusion, based on a series of blog posts Windridge wrote as the Institute of Physics lecturer in 2012. It focuses on tokamaks, which is not surprising, considering Windridge did her PhD research at JET.

EDIT:

[em]A Piece of the Sun[/em] table of contents courtesy of WorldCat:

Why Fusion? —
Britain : Thonemann and the Pinch —
United States : Spitzer and the Stellarator —
Russia : Artsimovich and the Tokamak —
Tokamaks Take Over —
Fusion by Laser —
One Big Machine —
If Not Now, When?