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Disney World should have gone nuclear
There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant.
Scott W. White, Gerald L. Kulcinski
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 358-363
Fusion Economics and Reactor Studies | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963640
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The amount of electrical energy produced over the lifetime of the ARIES-RS and UWMAK-I DT-fusion power plants is compared to the total amount of energy required to procure the fuel, build, operate, and decommission the power plants. The energy payback ratio varies slightly for the two power plants; 23 for ARIES-RS and 26 for UWMAK-I. By knowing the magnitude of the energy investment and the source of the various energy inputs, a CO2 emission factor is calculated. This number is similar for both fusion power plants with ≈8 tonnes of CO2 per GWeh for UWMAK-I and ≈9 tonnes of CO2 per GWeh for ARIES-RS. These fusion plants are compared to other existing electrical producing power plants.
