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Deuterium is a stable isotope, but Tritium’s half life is only 12.32 years making it quite radioactive.

There is significant effort put into using lithium blankets to create tritium at which point arguably the fuels are lithium and deuterium. But that’s also going to require irradiate the relevant equipment.



Quite right. I stand corrected w.r.t. my inaccurate statement about Tritium.


Tritium is worth $30,000 a gram.


Yea, though only about 400grams are used worldwide mostly for self illuminating signs. Which adds up to 12 million dollars per year of demand resulting in such high prices.

At scale it’s significantly cheaper to produce.


Lithium carbonate Li2CO3 is worth $6.75/kg

https://www.fastmarkets.com/commodities/industrial-minerals/...




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