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Editor's note: This article has was originally published in November 2023. It has been updated with new information as of June 2025.
Outside my office, there is a display case filled with rock samples from all over the world. It contains a disk of translucent, orange salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.; a core of white-and-bronze gneiss from the site of the future deep geologic repository in Eurajoki, Finland; several angular chunks of fine-grained, gray claystone from the underground research laboratory at Bure, France; and a piece of coarse-grained granite from the underground research tunnel in Daejeon, South Korea.
R. L. Miller, R. A. Krakowski, the ARIES Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 802-806
Advanced Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29442
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The multi-institutional ARIES study is developing several visions of tokamak magnetic-fusion reactors, with varying degrees of extrapolation of physics and technology, to project the economic, safety, and environmental features of future fusion power plants and assess their competitiveness. A comprehensive systems and trade study has been conducted as an integral and ongoing part of the reactor assessment in order to identify acceptable design points to be subjected to detailed analysis and integration. Results of these systems studies are summarized; some of these results are interim.