The scope of the course is the study of the nuclear fusion as a future source of energy. The training objectives are achieved through the analysis:
- of the main fusion reactions, their cross sections and energy produced;
- of the main conditions for reaching a plant with a positive net power output balance;
- of the plasma, its characteristics, behaviour and interaction with the magnetic field;
- of open (magnetic mirrors) and closed toroidal (tokamak, stellarator and reversed field pinch) magnetic confinements;
- of the main components of a magnetic confinement reactor, taking as reference ITER (main components of the tokamak and auxiliary systems);
- of tritium production in the blanket for future power reactors, adopting DEMO as a reference;
- of the main research plants presently in operation and under design phase for the study of magnetic confinement;
- of the main accident scenarios in magnetic confinement plants;
- of main characteristics of inertial confinement fusion and main research facilities;
- of the low-energy nuclear reactions such as muon-catalysed fusion and anomalies in electrolytic cells;
- of hybrid reactors fusion-fission and their applications to the closure of the fuel cycle.