I suspect that before long, a robot located at the power station would be able to change out an anode in just a few minutes, regardless of radiation levels, so down-time may be limited to 30 minutes for a typical electrode swap. If one robot on a circular track was surrounded by 24 generators, it should be able to perform these replacements easily. We just have to design the generators to have easy robotic access and plug-and-play parts. In that case, even if the electrode life was 1 week, it wouldn’t be too bad.
