Uploaded November 2016 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Alan Costley discusses the response to his paper, "On the power and size of tokamak fusion pilot plants and reactors", and what this means. The paper is being read well beyond the immediate fusion community. Alan gives his thoughts on why.

Read Alan's full paper in the Nuclear Fusion journal: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0029-5515/55/3/033001

His follow-up paper is "On the fusion triple product and fusion power gain of tokamak pilot plants and reactors"
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0029-5515/56/6/066003

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