Conference “A Thousand Splendid Suns” with Valerio Rossi Albertini

ALBERTO ROSSI ALBERTINI
Graduated with honors in Atomic and Molecular Physics, he was the first PhD in Italy in Material Science.
He is the author of 130 articles in international scientific journals in physics, chemistry, and engineering.
For 20 years, he was the director of the X-ray spectroscopy laboratory at CNR in Rome and has taught Quantum Chemistry and, currently, Science Communication.
In this field, he has collaborated over the past 15 years with dozens of programs. He hosts two science and new technology shows, Quasar on Rai2 and Gigawatt on La7.
He has received about ten awards for his work as a science communicator, and over a thousand videos of his television appearances are available online.
He is the author of the most viewed TED talk in Italian.

CONFERENCE: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Renewable energy sources are the solution to ensure energy supply while avoiding climate-altering gas emissions.
However, currently, they are insufficient to meet the growing demand, and many are calling for a return to nuclear power plants, with all the problems they entail, from safety to waste disposal.
There is, however, an alternative to traditional (fission) nuclear power that uses radioactive metals like uranium. It is nuclear fusion, the same process that powers the sun and other stars. It also harnesses nuclear reactions, but in a safe, clean, and renewable way. Physicists and engineers around the world are working on the construction of nuclear fusion reactors. But how will fusion reactors work, and what obstacles stand in the way of their realization, that is, the possibility of putting a thousand small suns into as many boxes?