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Re:Tokamak Energy sets a temperature record among commercial... by pfdietz on Sunday March 13, 2022 @10:33PM (#30667948)
Unless a DT reactor can breed its own tritium it will be totally economically hopeless.
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Re:Tokamak Energy sets a temperature record among commercial... by TaylorAlexander on Monday March 14, 2022 @04:08AM (#30669656)
Yeah. Someone the other day said in a comment that commercial fusion will never be viable because tritium is so expensive. But it does sound like breeding is the plan at least with ARC so I don't know what that commenter was thinking.
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