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Re:A faster, cheaper path to fusion energy by pfdietz on Monday November 05, 2018 @06:40PM (#18387008)
Retric: a production reactor would need robots capable of replacing the entire first wall every few years. ITER will not have anything like that.
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Re:A faster, cheaper path to fusion energy by Retric on Monday November 05, 2018 @06:45PM (#18387033)
ITER remote maintenance system (IRMS) is specifically designed to do just that: http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~mir/pub/SOFT_RHSystemsForITER_I...

It's not designed to replace everything, but I doubt commercial designs would go that far either.

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Re:A faster, cheaper path to fusion energy by DennisP on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @07:53AM (#18390510)
MIT's ARC is designed to make that easy. The reactor opens right up and you just lift out the inner wall and drop in a new one.

They've already tested joints in the REBCO tape, and found that they introduce very little electrical resistance.

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