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Originally Posted by Reiwa
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Am I wrong about the tritium thing? There isn't enough in the world to run a single fusion plant at this time.
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That’s actually a good question. I’m not sure how adequate current tritium stocks are, but it’s quite easy to produce. What’s done now is to insert lithium aluminate targets in a regular fission power reactor, and create tritium from the neutron reactions with lithium. I have a feeling that it could be mass produced pretty easily. We make it in great quantities to keep the fusion triggers on our nuclear weapons primed and ready, since it’s got a half life of about 12 years.