ITER will fail.
· Too expensive (+50 billions).
· Too complex.
· Best case scenario: zero net power. That means ITER 2, ITER 3, ITER commercial prototype...
· Can't be down scaled, that means more centralization in electric supply, more (statal) monopolies.
· Maintenance nightmare. Neutrons breaks all parts. Parts by far more complex than a fission reactors vessel (pretty much a giant teapot).
· Fission reactors are still needed to produce some tritium.
· It will generate radioactive waste, tons per year.
· Computer controlled superconductor magnet is potentially a bomb (~10 tons of TNT).
· Real net efficiency will be 10%? 1%? maybe less.
· Tritium cost will kill it: tritium cost 30k dollars per gram, that is $200/MWht (~$600/MWhe, net 1000? 10000?), without "tritium magic blanket breeder +99.999% efficient" it is economically useless. Even if it is 10 times cheaper, it's still too expensive.
· The very radioactive "tritium breeder blanket" must be processed in order to extract tritium.
>muh research reactor
>muh far future energy source
>muh no CO2
>muh no oil
>muh water as fuel
>muh tritium is breeded by magic neutron shield
>muh 2035 for first fusion test
>muh Solar freakin' bottle®
**Maybe uranium can be added to "lithium blanket". There is not alternative to uranium, neutrons cant be "multiplied" cheaply without it.
**Then, directly or indirectly, it will produce radioactive waste and there's a risk of nuclear proliferation. More of the same.
Billions in a solar bottle. Billions not used in Nuclear Fission...
· Too expensive (+50 billions).
· Too complex.
· Best case scenario: zero net power. That means ITER 2, ITER 3, ITER commercial prototype...
· Can't be down scaled, that means more centralization in electric supply, more (statal) monopolies.
· Maintenance nightmare. Neutrons breaks all parts. Parts by far more complex than a fission reactors vessel (pretty much a giant teapot).
· Fission reactors are still needed to produce some tritium.
· It will generate radioactive waste, tons per year.
· Computer controlled superconductor magnet is potentially a bomb (~10 tons of TNT).
· Real net efficiency will be 10%? 1%? maybe less.
· Tritium cost will kill it: tritium cost 30k dollars per gram, that is $200/MWht (~$600/MWhe, net 1000? 10000?), without "tritium magic blanket breeder +99.999% efficient" it is economically useless. Even if it is 10 times cheaper, it's still too expensive.
· The very radioactive "tritium breeder blanket" must be processed in order to extract tritium.
>muh research reactor
>muh far future energy source
>muh no CO2
>muh no oil
>muh water as fuel
>muh tritium is breeded by magic neutron shield
>muh 2035 for first fusion test
>muh Solar freakin' bottle®
**Maybe uranium can be added to "lithium blanket". There is not alternative to uranium, neutrons cant be "multiplied" cheaply without it.
**Then, directly or indirectly, it will produce radioactive waste and there's a risk of nuclear proliferation. More of the same.
Billions in a solar bottle. Billions not used in Nuclear Fission...
