Fusion power plant cost

The fear of accidents like Chernobyl, and the high cost of nuclear waste disposal, halted nuclear power plant construction in the United States m the 1980s, and in most ol the rest ol the world by the 1990s. Because nuclear fusion does not present the waste disposal problem of fission reactors, there is hope that fusion will be the primary energy source late in the twenty-first centuiy as the supplies of natural gas and petroleum dwindle. 

As I said earlier, none of this is definite but it is certainly worrying. The evidence points to fusion being more expensive than suggested by many published cost estimates and casts grave doubts on the economic viability of the tokamak power plant which would result from the present plans for fusion physics and technology. 

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