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More than likely a plant will have a lifetime supply of lithium and other blanket materials on site before it is turned on. The fuel costs really do drop to ef
by willis936 4y ago
More than likely a plant will have a lifetime supply of lithium and other blanket materials on site before it is turned on. The fuel costs really do drop to effectively zero on MCF devices.
Cost of cryogens, cost of steel, cost of working nitronic, cost of Beryllium, and cost of superconductors are the dominant sources to track.
- AtlasBarfed 4y agoAre you gradually irradiating the reactor? I mean that's what happens with fast neutrons and... Anything Your fuel costs are replaced by the reactor replacement cost. Spent nuclear rod fuel waste is replaced by the irradiated materials in the reactor.
- willis936 4y agoIndeed reactors are not free. The irradiated materials situation isn't as bad as fission though since they are low level activation materials that become safe within a few hundred years, as opposed to trans-uranics which are radioactive for thousands of years and will always be toxic. Since it is a complicated engineering problem there is space to turn engineering effort into reduced cost.