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Tritium fuel production Tritium occurs naturally but low abundance can be enhanced by accelerator or reactor based tritium breeding through neutron capture on 6 Li(n,t) 4 He. <strong>The</strong> United States has not produced tritium since 1988, when the Department of Energy closed it’s production facility site in South Carolina. Immediate tritium needs are being met by recycling tritium from dismantled U.S. nuclear weapons. New plans?
Maintaining weapon stock-pile N 1 Loss of tritium fuel 0.9 in nuclear warheads 08 0.8 3 H(β - ν) 3 He 0.7 by natural decay 0.6 ~5% per year! 0.5 0.4 ln 2 0.3 ( t t 0.2 t ) − ⋅ 1/ 2 = N ( t ) 3 3 ⋅e H H 0 01 0.1 0 10 20 30 tritium filling (%) time (y) To keep nuclear weapons stockpiles at the level prescribed by the START I (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty), however, the United States will require a tritium supply capable of producing three kilograms of tritium each year, to go online no later than 2007. Breaking the taboo of using civilian nuclear reactors to supply nuclear weapons materials, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved licenses in 2009 to allow tritium production at two Tennessee nuclear power plants.
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