Sorry...try this link https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:_rxl-U3jRuUJ:www.fusion.ucla.edu/ITER-TBM/ITER-TBM2/Tritium%2520Supply%2520Considerations.ppt+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShVY_nQfaLJ0hUtuoOq3SlMyE3KLaT3CfsofmIJBvO3QhQPxrEjV3NByq-ekOkoiOL-0Neb1w_aXtXoSJPahhPwFqxnSGp7W2lFSmD0X3y-_MHYnJjwh0TZTxVUaKX5SXZi-cCu&sig=AHIEtbRC4_lCWLePVrGTfxv4uHCa3CWTVQ&pli=1
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > See Canadian CANDU sales in > > > > *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 >> >> >
