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Old 08-10-2020, 02:51 PM   #5
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
Default Re: Why mine Saturn for He-3

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Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2 View Post
But you can take that tritium and he-3 and fuse it with more deuterium
You don't really have a choice on that, the reaction rate of D-T is something like a hundred times D-D so if you're fusing D-D almost all of the T gets consumed. The 3He won't get reliably consumed, though.
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