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NetworkLlama t1_iywq9xk wrote

Reply to comment by karlnite in Why not use hydrogen and deuterium in fusion reaction rather than tritium and deuterium? by Curious_user4445

There's probably not as much tritium in that water as you think. According to this paper on sourcing tritium, a 700 MW CANDU-6 reactor can make only about 130 grams of tritium per year. There probably aren't dozens of kilograms of tritium sitting in those barrels.

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karlnite t1_iywuaul wrote

That’s very likely, I have not done the math to calculate to mass of tritium in the systems.

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