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Releasing large amounts of tritium into the Pacific is "another nuclear experiment on the coastal communities of Fukushima and beyond," says Shaun Burnie, an independent nuclear consultant based in Britain.Meanwhile, 400 tonnes of what TEPCO calls "lightly-contaminated water" already leaks into the sea every day.

They admit, however, that among the toxins inevitably left behind is tritium, a low-level contaminant with a half-life of about 12 years.Mr Klein insists discharge is the least-bad solution.

Critics question how much strontium and cesium it will remove, and say tritium can lodge inside marine life, and therefore harm humans.

In a vacuum it can fire a plasma blob at nearly 150km a second fast enough to initiate fusion in a deuterium and tritium fuel.

The neutrons are generated by bombarding a heavy form of hydrogen, called tritium, with a lighter isotope of the gas, called deuterium.

It also releases neutrons, which engineers hope to use to make tritium and thus close the fuel cycle.Unfortunately, there is a fundamental snag.

Deuterium (along with an even heavier hydrogen isotope called tritium, which is made by bombarding either deuterium or lithium with neutrons) is injected into the doughnut, heated to the point at which its electrons break free and it forms a plasma, and squeezed by magnetic fields.In this section Next ITERation?

These increase the beams' power 15,000 times and push their wavelengths into the ultraviolet.The pellet itself contains a sphere of deuterium (a heavy form of hydrogen, with nuclei consisting of a proton and a neutron) and tritium (even heavier hydrogen, with a proton and two neutrons) that is chilled to just a degree or so above absolute zero.

The complexities of muon-catalyzed fusion are many and include generating the muons (at an energy expenditure of about five billion electron volts per muon) and immediately injecting them into the deuterium-tritium mixture.

However, in 1991 the first tritium-deuterium reaction was carried out.

In the laser fusion approach, densities ranging from 100 to 200 times liquid deuterium-tritium density have been achieved.