tritium

You can't "breed" 3He; you have to breed tritium, which \n decays to He3 with a half-life of 12 years.\n\nHuh, I didn't know that.

D-T needs tritium, which would have to be made by bombarding lithium with the neutrons from the fusion reaction.

The neutrons hit the lithium for tritium, heat the lead, and it all drives the steam turbine, with some steam diverted to drive the pistons.

Parts of the bomb were recovered, including its tritium bottle and the plutonium.

They don't need as much tritium inventory to start up as tokamaks, and think they can be competitive with fossil fuels.

I suspect if you can achieve ignition with tritium, you can use the fusion flash to ignite deuterium in a two stage process.

What radioactive isotopes the water carries as a solute is irrelevant to the presence of tritium in the molecules.

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

If I recall correctly, doing actual fusion with one of these requires deuterium and tritium and produces a crapload of neutrons for which I really doubt he has adequate shielding.

The tritium in the fuel is radioactive and releasing it into the atmosphere would be... not ideal, but the reactor doesn't use a lot of it and it's light enough to fly off into space fairly quickly.

Very occasionally, when tritium beta-decays, the electron carries away all the energy.

Combine that with acid-base chemistry which revolves around the disassociation of hydrogen from water and that tritium can end up as a beta emitter anywhere in the body, including in actual strands of DNA [1].