This revised and enlarged moment variation of the preferred textbook and reference comprises accomplished remedies of either the validated foundations of magnetic fusion plasma physics and of the newly constructing components of energetic examine. It concludes with a glance forward to fusion energy reactors of the long run. The well-established subject matters of fusion plasma physics -- easy plasma phenomena, Coulomb scattering, drifts of charged debris in magnetic and electrical fields, plasma confinement by means of magnetic fields, kinetic and fluid collective plasma theories, plasma equilibria and flux floor geometry, plasma waves and instabilities, classical and neoclassical shipping, plasma-materials interactions, radiation, and so forth. -- are totally built from first rules via to the computational versions hired in smooth plasma physics.
the hot and rising issues of fusion plasma physics examine -- fluctuation-driven plasma shipping and gyrokinetic/gyrofluid computational method, the physics of the divertor, impartial atom recycling and delivery, impurity ion delivery, the physics of the plasma part (diffusive and non-diffusive shipping, MARFEs, ELMs, the L-H transition, thermal-radiative instabilities, shear suppression of delivery, speed spin-up), and so forth. -- are comprehensively constructed and concerning the experimental facts. Operational limits at the functionality of destiny fusion reactors are built from plasma physics and engineering constraints, and conceptual designs of destiny fusion strength reactors are discussed.