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The problem I have can be see by going back to the original ARC paper. That reactor was much smaller than ITER, and had 10x power density, but was still the mass of several WW2 destroyers (for net 190 MW(e)). Its volumetric power density is still 40x worse than an existing commercial PWR.


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