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by willis936 1724 days ago
The primary reason for this is the use of Nb3Sn LTS confinement coils. REBCO is the next wave.
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ITER has volumetric power density 400x worse than a PWR reactor vessel. ARC as described in the arxiv paper is just 40x worse. Better, but not by enough.