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That is a valid concern, if perhaps a fusion plant requires the outside be coated in platinum or something. It would have to be both expensive and difficult to
by ChuckMcM 8y ago
That is a valid concern, if perhaps a fusion plant requires the outside be coated in platinum or something. It would have to be both expensive and difficult to manufacture/obtain. It is essentially where we are today with ITER, which is to say if ITER generated net power it would still be a hard pill to swallow if it costs $100B per power plant.
Fortunately, many of the significant costs the plague fission plants (like the legal expense of dealing with all the lawsuits, the cost of unlimited insurance, Etc.) would likely not apply to fusion plants.
- pfdietz 8y agoFusion reactors will be both much larger than and much more complex than fission reactors. They will necessarily be more expensive, even if they aren't made of resublimated unobtainium. The size difference follows from limits on heat transfer through the first wall, and has been known for 35 or more years.