Given what you’ve said, it certainly sounds like D-T radioactivity wouldn’t be an issue, and I agree that theoretical D-T breakeven would be a big achievement. But I’m not sure if it would necessarily bring in the funding bonanza, since as far as I know an FF device is unsuited to using D-T as a practical, power-generating fuel. At the very least, the current design is not set up to capture any reasonable amount of neutron energy for power production (I don’t know how easy it would be to reconfigure a basic FF design for such purpose.)
If I were a potential investor, I’d see D-T breakeven with FF as a neat trick, but that doesn’t really indicate if it can do the much harder p-B11 breakeven.
