US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved

Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by adgjlsfhk1 on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @02:56PM (#33974787)

TLDR is there isn't nearly enough tritium, but fusion reactors can make more (while still generating energy)

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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by ngcc_hk on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @04:46PM (#33976365)

Can you collect them easily in the reactor ?

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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by elihu on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @07:27PM (#33978349)

If I understand correctly, tritium is the result of bombarding lithium with neutrons.

I'm not sure how tokomaks are expected to work; do you just add lithium and expect the tritium to get where it needs to go to keep the reaction going, or do you actively remove gases from vessel, filter out the tritium, and re-use it as fuel?

Either way, I don't imagine it'd be too hard to recapture the stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeding_blanket

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