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They're hoping to use a lithium "blanket" that would absorb and use the emitted neutrons to breed tritium (that's needed for D+T fusion anyway).
by moogly 6y ago
They're hoping to use a lithium "blanket" that would absorb and use the emitted neutrons to breed tritium (that's needed for D+T fusion anyway).
- tsimionescu 6y agoThat doesn't save the confinement walls from becoming more and more brittle, it just limits the damage to those areas, and it helps recover some of the tritium it leaks.
- pfdietz 6y agoIt's not that they hope to breed tritium; tritium breeding is absolutely required for DT fusion to make any sense at all. Making the tritium in fission reactors for a 1 GW(e) DT fusion reactor would cost $20B/year.