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I was looking at Sciam and their disparagement of fusion this month.

It seems that harder than fusion is breeding tritium.

The writer claimed it was a 50 to 75 year job to get it working - if it could work. And they haven't even started. And no plans to start.
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The Dittmar paper you cited in this thread had a pretty good overview of the H3 breeding problem.
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What do you do when you run short of beryllium?
As an example, a representative alpha-beryllium neutron source can be expected to produce approximately 30 neutrons for every one million alpha particles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_source

That doesn't sound like a high production source.
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MSimon wrote:What do you do when you run short of beryllium?
Go to "Grignak's (sp?) planet". Thats where the Questians got their Beryllium Sphere.
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