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30 years from now, we might have to spend a lot of money harvesting all that tritium back out of the ocean to feed our fusion reactors.
by kijin 6y ago
30 years from now, we might have to spend a lot of money harvesting all that tritium back out of the ocean to feed our fusion reactors.
- pletnes 6y agoTritium’s half life is \approx 12 years.
- throwawayboise 6y agoIt's also a low-energy beta emitter, not dangerous externally, and has a short biological half-life in the human body (days), so it there is not a long term bioaccumulation risk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium
- maxnoe 6y agoFusion reactors will create their tritium from Lithium. Tritiums half life is just to short.