A pilot plant must retire six risks to earn its name
A credible pilot must connect confinement to materials, fuel, maintenance, heat conversion and repeatable operation. The weakest interface can define the whole machine.
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Pilot Plants
The integrated physics, materials, fuel, maintenance, heat-conversion and availability tests that define a credible fusion pilot plant.
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DOE’s fusion roadmap is a procurement list in disguise
The new federal roadmap is most useful when read not as a promise of power by a date, but as a specification for the facilities, components and evidence America must buy.
A device is not a plant. A plant is not a fleet.
Fusion schedules become legible only when each claim is located on the full path from plasma experiment to repeatable infrastructure.