FUSION ENERGY AND THE ARC PROJECT

The recent progress in fields such as High Temperature Superconductors (HTS), Additive manufacturing, new diagnostics, and innovative materials, has led to new scenarios and to a second generation of Nuclear Fusion Reactor designs. The new Affordable Robust Compact (ARC) Fusion Reactor is described in the paper. ARC could be not only the base-load but also a load-following reactor, capable to cover peak requests and other plant shutdowns. In order to investigate this interesting ability of ARC, its more sensitive component has been analyzed: ARC vacuum vessel.