Comment by credit_guy
4 months ago
Wow. The ARC reactor is supposed to deliver 270 MWe (when/if it will be built) [1]. So 20% of the world annual production of beryllium for one power plant that would deliver about one quarter of the power of an AP-1000 fission reactor.
And the original ARC design used 958 tons of FLiBe.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.3540