Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: DBrow

How do you get tritium out of the fission of uranium?


16 posted on 05/30/2010 7:40:50 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies ]


To: VanShuyten

From lots of neutrons hitting water. Regular water yields some, heavy water (like the CANDU units) generate more.

It is a very rare fission product coming directly from U fission, but the quantity is negligible.

I think the US used to make it by bombarding lithium in reactors, we don’t any more.


17 posted on 05/30/2010 7:52:10 PM PDT by DBrow
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies ]

To: VanShuyten; DBrow
How do you get tritium out of the fission of uranium?

Apparently, by going fission in the Connecticut River.

20 posted on 05/31/2010 10:16:55 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson