In order to operate it uses a mixture of deuterium and tritium fuel. I just remember reading that the reaction process results in the regeneration of additional tritium fuel but that the process is barely able to replace the original quantity of fuel. Perhaps someone who understands how that fuel is regenerated can set me straight concerning the excess production of tritium you mention.
When the Takamak reaction takes place, how many neutrons are released per event and do you need to capture most of those in order to produce new tritium? That is what I read about which suggested that this was not going to be such an easy task. Perhaps a technique is now in place which offers overkill for this requirement? Dave -----Original Message----- From: a.ashfield <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Sep 3, 2015 10:44 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:New Article on Brillouin, and my response @David Roberson "I recall reading that it is going to be a challenge to generate all of the tritium required to fuel the Tokamak reactor itself. Has this problem been resolved? Is there going to be enough left over to become a proliferation issue?" ITER, if it ever gets going, should produce tritium by the liter.
