Your numbers sound like generation 1 numbers, after ITER. ITER is only a test facility to prove hopefully that it can be net positive. However, those maintenan

Your numbers sound like generation 1 numbers, after ITER. ITER is only a test facility to prove hopefully that it can be net positive. However, those maintenance costs (your estimates) would be the first thing to drop. Any company producing/operating these will be competing with wind and solar, and thus highly incentivized to improve. There should be plenty of low hanging fruit, since it hasn't happened once yet.