Heavy-Ion Fusion Target Cost Model

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

“…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].…”

OSIRIS and SOMBRERO Inertial Fusion Power Plant Designs, Volume 2: Designs, Assessments, and Comparisons

“…Under routine daily operation, each of the breeder and helium circuits processes 550 grams of tritium and is expected to release 5.5 Ci/day. In addition, the tritium permeation through the steam generator is 15 Ci/day, giving a total daily routine release [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] .of tritium from the reactor system of 26 Ci. A separate examination of the reactor building showed that each day both the Suilding atmosphere of Xe and the target injector system handle 900 and 1400 grams of tritium, respectively.…”