From Google Tech Talks on November 9, 2006
Full version (1 hr 32 min):
http://video.google.com/vi
Summary version (3 min):
http://video.google.com/vi
Inertial Electrostatic Confinement fusion (IEC), an old idea that's been made new. While the international community debates the fate of the politically-turmoiled $12 billion ITER (an experimental thermonuclear reactor), simple IEC reactors are being built as high-school science fair projects.
Dr. Bussard's work won the 2006 outstanding technology of the year award from the International Academy of Science. The academy called his fusion reactor "a revolutionary radiation-free fusion process that could change the world as we know it today".
http://www.science.edu/Tec
