Re: A great homebrew generator plan

Posted by buickanddeere on December 07, 2004 at 12:12:18 from (192.75.48.150):

In Reply to: Re: A great homebrew generator plan posted by REDEYE on December 06, 2004 at 20:55:52:

The special Hydrogen isotope that is the easiest to cram together in a fusion reaction is tritium or H3. Next easiest is heavy hydrogen which is found in heavy water D2O.
We have loads of the crap around here in the D2O moderated candu reactors. Neutrons hit the H2 atom in the heavy water molecule and transmutes into tritium.
We have to extract the tritium from the heavy water every once in a while. Or we get heavy rad dose when exposed to D2O/tritium water vapor.
In the old days if dosed up. They used to send you home with a 24 of beer and a 1 gallon pee sample bottle. The more water based fluids you drink, the more water/tritium is flushed out through your kidneys. Shortens the time it has to irradiate your whole body before it would normally be "gone".
The stuff glows so it's used on weapon sights, non electric emergency lights. It's just about essential in the "primer" to get a hydrogen bomb warhead to go bang.
Tritium gas is miserable to handle as it reacts chemically like hydrogen gas. It seeps right through many materials as the atom is so small. It makes metal brittle as well.
The movie "Spider Man 2" showed Doc Octopus getting and using a "lump" of tritium. It was the funniest part of the movie for me.

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