deuterium-tritium

The biggest practical problem faced by any commercial-scale deuterium-tritium fusion plant is a lack of neutron-resistant materials.

Even then, building separate deuterium-tritium fusion reactors that produce He3 for He-He fusion reactors could be more financially sound idea.

Also deuterium-tritium reactors get energy out of the plasma via capturing high energy neutrons, very similarly to nuclear power plants.

The problem with fusion is that in the form accessible to us here on Earth (deuterium-tritium), it still creates radioactive waste.

Deuterium-Tritium fuel has an energy density of around 3.4e14 Joules/kg or 94 million kilowatt-hours/kg.

That's a researcher working in mainstream fusion, so that would be for deuterium-tritium fuel, which is the easiest but produces very high-energy neutrons.

Don't get too starry-eyed; this is deuterium-tritium or deuterium-deuterium fusion they're talking about.

But aneutronic fusion is like two orders of magnitude more difficult than Deuterium-Tritium.

From the article Flexie posted, for production they're planning to use deuterium-tritium, which produces helium and high-energy neutrons, which breed more tritium from lithium.

Reactions are driven by fast 14 MeV neutrons provided by a deuterium-tritium fusion plasma, which are uniquely capable of enabling the desired reaction pathway at scale.

Most experimental approaches to fusion use a deuterium-tritium reaction.

I'm way out of my knowledge here, but google tells me: - a Deuterium-Tritium fusion event releases 4.03 MeV - 1eV = 1.602 x 10^-19 joules.

This is using the most "promising" deuterium-tritium reaction.