Socio-economic Aspects of Fusion

Technical Report · Thu Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2004

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/835924· OSTI ID:835924

Schmidt, J A

Fusion power systems, if developed and deployed, would have many attractive features including power production not dependant on weather or solar conditions, flexible siting, and minimal carbon dioxide production. In this paper, we quantify the benefit of these features. In addition, fusion deployment scenarios are developed for the last half of this century and these scenarios are analyzed for resource requirements and waste production.

• Research Organization: Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03073
• OSTI ID: 835924
• Report Number(s): PPPL-4010; TRN: US0500444
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: 21 Oct 2004
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
CARBON DIOXIDE
POWER GENERATION
POWER SYSTEMS
PRODUCTION
SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS
WASTES
WEATHER
ELECTRIC POWER
POWER PLANTS
ENERGY SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION