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Based on YBCO prices from a few years ago, the estitmate was $200M in material cost for the magnets of a 200MW reactor, not an outrageous amount considering all
by baking 7y ago
Based on YBCO prices from a few years ago, the estitmate was $200M in material cost for the magnets of a 200MW reactor, not an outrageous amount considering all of the other costs. The real issue was getting the construction cost of the magnets down to 2x the materials cost from about the current 10x the material cost for large superconducting magnets.
- sgt101 7y agoThe other argument is that if you use YBCO then the overall scale of the development is orders of magnitude reduced.