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Re:Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ trig... by tuatoru on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @06:57PM (#28846147)
Fusion plants cannot be 100x bigger.

The grid doesn't cope well with current 2GWe plants going offline suddenly. It would not cope at all with a 200GWe plant doing that.

Besides the waste heat dissipation issues...

Re:Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ trig... by pfdietz on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @07:37PM (#28846444)
Also, fusion plants have inherent diseconomy of scale, from the square-cube law. There is a limit to the energy flux through the surface of the reactor, and because of that the volumetric power density of the reactor is inversely proportional to its linear size.