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What's more, so far they haven't included the deuterium and tritium fuel in the capsule for the tests.
The tritium fuel is radioactive, but it will not be a source of radioactive waste it will be transformed into helium.
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 tritium fuel is radioactive, but it will not be a source of radioactive waste — it will be transformed into helium.
Tritium fuel self-sufficiency is obviously needed for a D-T based device that intends to operate at finite duty cycles.
Due to the lack of external tritium sources, all fusion power plants must demonstrate a closed tritium fuel cycle.
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In addition, once operation with deuterium-tritium fuel has started, the interior of the vessel becomes radioactive (or "activated"), making it much harder to modify internal components.
DOE has spent nearly $800 million on the stadium-sized NIF complex in Livermore, California, whose 192 laser beams are supposed to ignite a tiny capsule of deuterium-tritium fuel in an effort to simulate exploding nuclear weapons.
This paper compares and contrasts features of tritium fusion fuel cycles to United States Cold War era defense program tritium systems.
As part of the JET Programme in Support for ITER, campaigns with pure Tritium (TT) fuel and Deuterium-Tritium (DT) mixtures are planned at JET.
Large He production rates are expected due to tritium (T) fuel self-sufficiency requirement, as both, He and T, are produced at the same rate.
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