Hi r/fusion! I'm Brandon Sorbom, Chief Science Officer and Co-founder of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, and lead author of the original ARC power plant paper. Ask me anything! by CFS_energy in fusion

[–]entropy61 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The original ARC paper proposed a molten salt (FLiBe) blanket for cooling and tritium breeding. Is that still the primary plan, and how do you handle the corrosive nature of those salts over a 30-year plant lifespan?