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With the recent number of articles regarding fuel crisis of #FusionEnergy it's the right time to start public discussion on it
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Right now, the tritium used in fusion experiments like @iterorg, and the smaller JET tokamak in the UK, comes from a very specific type of nuclear fission reactor called a heavy-water moderated reactor
Many of these reactors are reaching end of their working life, there are fewer than 30 left in operation worldwide —20 in Canada, 4 in South Korea, and 2 in Romania, each producing about 100 grams of tritium a year. (India has plans to build more, but who knows where it ends
