Re:Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ trig...
by pfdietz on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @07:37PM
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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.
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...