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If fusion reactors like ITER are going to need tritium for fuel, why wouldn't it make sense to extract it from the processed Fukushima water that they're going to just dump in the ocean? Would it be too contaminated with other radionuclides (after reprocessing)?
Comment by x-seronis-x at 20/07/2022 at 19:03 UTC
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The deuterium was the limiting factor. Once started the fusion reactions will also be producing tritium as a byproduct and it would be collected and fed back into the reaction