Tritium

We are now just ramping up what we call our Tritium 4 products.

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Tritium is produced when the atoms of lithium-6 absorbs neutrons in the reactor core.

Robert Alvarez: Future Supply of New Tritium Explosive for U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Doubt Robert Alvarez 2010

(Tritium is best known as a source of thermonuclear energy, and 3He has become of importance in low temperature research.)

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And while these elevated levels of radioactive poisons such as Tritium are captured in filters and measured in the wines grown from local vineyards in the valleys surrounding the Livermore Laboratory, so-called "acceptable" collective radiation doses are met with ho-hum blasé.

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Granted it needs millions in funding to turn it into any potential for real power generation and a better supply of Helium 3 than the decay of Tritium in thermonuclear warheads.

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Tritium gas is low-energy and has a half-life of 12 years.

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We're in a race against time, where no news is good news, says physicist Kenneth Bergeron, author of Tritium on Ice: The Dangerous New Alliance of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power.

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Tritium production alternatives include building a new government production reactor or the development of linear accelerators.

Robert Alvarez: Future Supply of New Tritium Explosive for U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Doubt Robert Alvarez 2010

Tritium, an isotope that builds up in reactor coolant, can be harmful if it gets into drinking water.

Vermont Scuttles Plans for Reactor Rebecca Smith 2010

Tritium can be produced by irradiating lithium-6 targets in the reactor.

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