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From SPARC to ARC: CFS prepares for a first-of-a-kind fusion plant
Commonwealth Fusion Systems makes no small plans. The company wants to build a 400-MWe magnetic confinement fusion power plant called ARC near Richmond, Va., and begin operating it in the early 2030s. And the plans don’t end there. CFS wants to deploy “thousands” of fusion power plants capable of accelerating a global energy transition.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1994 | Pages 1021-1024
Tritium Technology, Safety, Environment, and Remote Maintenance | Proceedings of the Eleventh Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy New Orleans, Louisiana June 19-23, 1994 | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A40289
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As fusion experiments grow in size, power, and tritium fuel consumption, the safety analyses for these experiments become more important for regulatory approval. With current trends in using probabilistic safety techniques, the need for component failure rate data for radioactivity confinement components has grown. This paper presents the results of a literature review for vacuum component reliability. Point estimate average failure rates and error factors are given for a wide variety of vacuum components used for fusion experiments.