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Tritium leaks are indeed public relations problems, if done in the very small quantities that would be in a fusion reactor.
by mlindner 4y ago
Tritium leaks are indeed public relations problems, if done in the very small quantities that would be in a fusion reactor.
- pfdietz 4y ago> very small quantities that would be in a fusion reactor Fusion reactors would involve much more tritium than in a fission reactor. In the latter, especially LWRs, tritium comes from rare ternary fission events. In a DT fusion reactor, T is a primary fuel. A 1 GWe fusion plant will burn about 150 kg of tritium a year. To illustrate how much that is: that quantity of tritium would be enough to raise 2 months worth of the average flow of the Mississippi River above the legal limit for drinking water.