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*www.fusion.ucla.edu/.../Tritium%20Supply%20Considerations.ppt* The problem is not tritium supply but structural material life cycle issues. No material can withstand fast alpha and neutron irradiation for very long. Hot fusion is not economical because of this. It’s too expensive to rebuild a fusion reactor every few years. This is why the hot fusion guys want to use boron fusion. But Boron fusion is very hard to do. On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In hot fusion, Tritium is bred is a lithium 6 blanket. 6Li + N -> 4He + >> T (4.8 MeV) >> >> >> > I understand that; but, at 47:45 he says that he is going to obtain his > startup source of T from "existing reactors". There are no existing > reactors that can generate a significant amout of T since the SRP went > down. Our nuclear arsenal depends on recovered T from older bombs and we > are close to having to make a decision to build another tritium generating > reactor like the one at SRP. > > T > >
