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Wow. The ARC reactor is supposed to deliver 270 MWe (when/if it will be built) [1]. So 20% of the world annual production of beryllium for one power plant that
by credit_guy 2y ago
Wow. The ARC reactor is supposed to deliver 270 MWe (when/if it will be built) [1]. So 20% of the world annual production of beryllium for one power plant that would deliver about one quarter of the power of an AP-1000 fission reactor.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_fusion_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_fusion_reactor
- pfdietz 2y agoAnd the original ARC design used 958 tons of FLiBe. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.3540 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.3540