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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

The ability to generate tritium within the reactor is crucial. A sustainable fusion energy system needs to produce more fuel than it consumes

I clearly don't understand the fusion process. Deuterium is used to fuse and create tritium?

The reactor core also features an electron-screened environment. This design reduces the energy needed to overcome the Coulomb barrier between particles, which lowers required fusion temperatures by several million degrees and allows for higher performance in a compact size.

What's this "electron screened environment" they are talking about? They can't purge all electrons from molecules when they enter can they? That would make the molecule instable. But it sounds like they are doing something similar in order to reduce the temperature required for fusion.

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Produce more fuel than it consumed... I'm pretty sure that's breaking a law somewhere... And not the human kind...

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

It produces more rare tritium fuel than it uses from other fuels that it consumes. So in theory as long as you keep supplying the common fuel you get the tritium you need for the higher power reactions.

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