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LLNL offers tools to model the economics of inertial fusion power plants
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has designed a model to help assess the economic impact of future fusion power plant operations—specifically, the operation of inertial fusion energy (IFE) power plants. Further, it has made its Generalized Economics Model (GEM) for Fusion Technology—an Excel spreadsheet—available for download.
Michael Martin, Manuele Aufiero, Ehud Greenspan, Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Transactions | Volume 116 | Number 1 | June 2017 | Pages 1174-1176
Reactor Physics
