Does anyone know whether nuclear fusion energy gain numbers contain energy requirements for keeping the magnets cooled and the vacuum at high quality?
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The trade off is less risk of catastrophic disruptions that ruin your reactor, and you don’t necessarily need so much magnetic volume / field strength to prevent first orbit losses from the region inside internal transport barrier - and magnetic volume drives the overall capex.
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But as you say, it’s all fairly theoretical. What I eventually took away from it all is “nuclear power needs to come in c. 200mw chunks of predictably long lived expensive plant, or short lived cheap plant”.
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