Scientists Who Have Published Critical Concerns About Fusion

Jassby, Daniel, “The Quest for Fusion Energy,” Inference, May 2022

Hirsch, Robert L. and Bezdek, Roger H., “Fusion: Ten Times More Expensive Than Nuclear Power,” (May 12, 2021) Real Clear Energy

T.E.G. Nicholas, T.P. Davis, F. Federici, J. Leland, B.S. Patel, C. Vincent, S.H. Ward, “Re-examining the Role of Nuclear Fusion in a Renewables-Based Energy Mix, (2021) Energy Policy, 149

Reinders, L. J., “Sun in a Bottle?… Pie in the Sky!: The Wishful Thinking of Nuclear Fusion Energy” (Aug 1, 2021) Springer

Reinders, L. J., The Fairy Tale of Nuclear Fusion (May 21, 2021) Springer

Abdou, Mohamed, Riva, Marco, Ying, Alice, Day, Christian, Loarte, Alberto, Baylor, L.R., Humrickhouse, Paul, Fuerst, Thomas F. and Cho, Seungyon “Physics and Technology Considerations for the Deuterium-Tritium Fuel Cycle and Conditions for Tritium Fuel Self Sufficiency,” (Nov. 23, 2020) Nuclear Fusion, 61 (1)

Lopes Cardozo, N. J., “Economic Aspects of the Deployment of Fusion Energy: The Valley of Death and the Innovation Cycle,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (2019) 377, 2141

Jassby, Daniel, “Voodoo Fusion Energy” (April 2019) American Physical Society Forum on Physics and Society

Jassby, Daniel, “ITER is a Showcase … For The Drawbacks Of Fusion Energy” (Feb. 14, 2018) Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Hirsch, Robert, L.,”Fusion Research: Time to Set a New Path,” (2015) Issues in Science and Technology

Hirsch, Robert, L., “Fusion Research: Time to Face Reality” (Dec. 2015) Fusion Power Associates Annual Meeting

Bradshawa, A. M. and Hamacherb, T. “Nuclear fusion and the helium supply problem,” Fusion Engineering and Design, 88(9–10) October 2013, Pages 2694-2697

Balibar, Sebastien “The Fusion Myth,” (May 14, 2007)

Koshiba, Masatoshi, “Japanese Nobel laureate Questions Validity of Nuclear Fusion Project” (Jan. 30, 2004) Agence France-Presse

Mazzucato, Ernesto, Letter to Editor (2004) Economist

Mazzucato, Ernesto, Letter to Editor (1996) Science

Dorland, William and Kotschenreuther, Michael (News Article: Turbulence May Sink Titanic Reactor) (1996) Science

Lidsky, Lawrence, “The Trouble With Fusion” (Oct. 1983) MIT Technology Review