Meet the editor

Igor O. Girka earned his MS degree in Theoretical Nuclear Physics and Candidate of Science and Doctor of Science degrees in Plasma Physics from V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University (KKhNU), Kharkiv, Ukraine, in 1985, 1991, and 2004, respectively. In 2003–2005, he was a vice president of KKhNU. Since 2005, he has been the dean of the KKhNU-School of Physics and Technology. He has authored 5 textbooks, 3 monographs, and 99

papers. His current research interests include propagation, conversion, and absorption of magnetohydrodynamic and surface-type electromagnetic waves in fusion devices and devices for plasma electronics. Since 2015, he has been the vice president of the Ukrainian Physical Society. In 2018, he was elected a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

**Preface III**

Selected Problems of Nuclear Physics **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 21**

**Chapter 3 33**

Selected Problems of Mechanical Engineering **51**

**Chapter 4 53**

**Chapter 5 81**

*by Fouad A. Majeed, Yousif A. Abdul-Hussien and Fatima M. Hussian*

Mechanical Mockup of IFE Reactor Intended for the Development of Cryogenic Target Mass Production and Target Rep-Rate Delivery into the

*by Irina Aleksandrova, Elena Koresheva, Evgeniy Koshelev, Boris Kuteev* 

The Mechanical Behavior of the Cable-in-Conduit Conductor in the

*by Donghua Yue, Xingyi Zhang and Youhe Zhou*

Fusion Neutronics Experiments for Thorium Assemblies

**Section 1**

*by Rong Liu*

**Section 2**

Reaction Chamber

ITER Project

*and Andrei Nikitenko*

*by Quamrul Haider*

Contents

Nuclear Fusion: Holy Grail of Energy

Fusion Reaction of Weakly Bound Nuclei
