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		pfdietz on March 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tokamak Energy sets a temperature record among com... Unless a DT reactor can breed its own tritium it will be totally economically hopeless.

SequoiaHope on March 14, 2022 [–]

Yeah. Someone the other day said in a comment that commercial fusion will never be viable because tritium is so expensive. But it does sound like breeding is the plan at least with ARC so I don't know what that commenter was thinking.

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