The robot in the vessel is part of the power plant
Components inside a fusion machine will be difficult or unsafe to service by hand. Maintenance architecture therefore sets availability, component design and plant economics.
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Plant Availability
Fusion reliability, maintenance, component lifetime, outage duration and the operating evidence behind plant economics.
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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.
The materials problem is the strategy
The first wall, blanket and high-heat-flux components are not supporting details. They set the possible lifetime of a fusion plant.