Sensitivity of Electricity Cost to Heavy-Ion Fusion Target Characteristics

Wilson, D. C.; Dudziak, D.J.; Magelssen, G. R.; Zuckerman, David S.

doi:10.13182/fst88-a25107

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“…A reduction in the risks associated with construction and maintenance is likely to encourage financial commitment from governments and eventually to lower finance costs for commercially funded power plants. Hence, in figures 1 and 2 it is proposed to go further than the integrated nuclear digital environment (INDE) proposed for nuclear fission power plants [2], by including modelling of capital and operational costs of fusion power plants [31,32] and estimates of the uncertainty associated with these predictions. This would allow the commercial returns from a fusion power plant to be predicted, taking account of construction and operational costs; and in turn, this is likely to reduce the price of capital funding of future fusion power plants through a lowering of the discount rate [33,34].…”

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An integrated digital framework for the design, build and operation of fusion power plants

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The development of a commercial fusion power plant presents a unique set of challenges associated with the complexity of the systems, the integration of novel technologies, the likely diversity and distribution of the organizations involved, and the scale of resources required. These challenges are reviewed and compared to those for other complex engineering systems. A framework for creating a digital environment that integrates research, test, design and operational data is discussed and is based on combining the integrated nuclear digital environment (INDE), proposed recently for nuclear fission power plants, with the hierarchical pyramid of test and simulation used in the aerospace industry. The framework offers the opportunity to plan modelling strategies that allow large design domains to be explored prior to optimizing a detailed design for construction; and in this context, the relationship between measurements and predictions are explored. The use of the framework to guide the socio-technical activity associated with a distributed and collaborative design process is discussed together with its potential benefits and the technology gaps that need to be addressed in order to realize them. These benefits include shorter development times, reduced costs and improvements in credibility, operability, reliability and safety.

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confidence: 99%