lithium-6

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

The facility also separates lithium-6 from natural lithium for use in thermonuclear weapons.

Should the Israelis Arrest Benny Morris? « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

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

Should the Israelis Arrest Benny Morris? « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

A small-scale design developed by Toshiba Corporation in cooperation with Japan's Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI) and funded by the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) is the 5 MWt, 200 kWe Rapid-L, using lithium-6 (a liquid neutron poison) as a control medium.

Small nuclear power reactors 2009

A small-scale design developed by Toshiba Corporation in cooperation with Japan's Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI) and funded by the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) is the 5 MWt, 200 kWe Rapid-L, using lithium-6 (a liquid neutron poison) as a control medium.

Fast neutron reactors (FBR) 2009

Aug. 10, 1994: A suitcase at Munich airport contains lithium-6 and nuclear fuel.

Reality Check 2008

At a second meeting, the sellers offered a sample of an H-bomb component, lithium-6, and told the "businessman" when the Colombian would be returning to Munich from Moscow with a fresh shipment.

For Sale 2008

At the Dimona plant my job was producing plutonium, producing lithium-6, tritium and I also worked part-time in the nuclear waste area where they are dealing with nuclear waste.

A Blessing in Disguise? 2006

The half-life of tritium is very short, and lithium-6 isn't very long-lived either.

A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

It was expected that lithium-6 isotope would absorb a neutron from the fissioning plutonium and emit an alpha particle and tritium in the process, of which the latter would then fuse with the deuterium and increase the yield in a predicted manner.

Booman Tribune Booman Tribune 2010