Reply To: Global Warming

[belbear]

Henning wrote:
Mainly there is no tritium. In 2030 he estimates of 30kg tritium worldwide, being optimistic he writes. A 1GW reactor consumes 200kg tritium per year. With no way of producing tritium (e.g. uranium depleted), and Li+n reaction being a bad contender (see PDF).

You mean something like:

D+T fusion produces 1 neutron and energy,
Li+n consumes 1 neutron and energy, produces 1 Tritium
So you need to catch ALL of them neutrons to “breed” just enough tritium to keep the Tok going, which means no neutrons left to boil the water?…

So you really gonna need to keep them bad ol’ fission reactors running to make tritium?
And then to think that Sellafield & co must have released tons of it in the past…